Nabil Aniss

Nabil Aniss (1990, Morocco) is an artist based in Brussels working with moving images, exploring the complex relations between political liberation, insurrection, and the mystical rituals of Morocco's Brotherhoods.

During his residency at Tabakalera, he will work on a research-based video installation entitled 'The Moroccan deviant bodies - The Technology of Sorrow', engaging with the transnational and transhistorical condition of abandoned youth—from the urban peripheries of Morocco to isolated Moroccan minors in Spain, and more broadly to disenfranchised young people across Europe. The project interrogates how violence for subaltern masculinities becomes both a language and a medium through which these bodies, rendered surplus by state and social structures, attempt to reassert visibility and agency.

Nabil's work has been presented in Scuola Piccola Zattere (IT), Instants Videos (FR), New Radicalisms (NL), Studio Florida (IT), V2_ lab for the unstable media (NL), Centrale for contemporary art (BE), Arka Arka (AUT), In-Ruins (IT), Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto (IT), Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (KR), Firm Art Lab (BE), nodoCC (VE).