Born in Casablanca and based between Paris and Marrakech, Houda Kabbaj is a photographer, architect, and researcher.
She explores the boundaries between research and creation through collaborative processes that reveal new ways of perceiving our environment. Her work is grounded in a personal and experimental research practice that seeks to uncover subtle dimensions of the natural world surrounding her.
She questions the relationship between the materiality of the image and natural properties, extending her investigations into the darkroom, which has become a space of experimentation with “living” elements.
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In Houda Kabbaj’s work, the relationship to nature is not a conceptual gesture but a fundamental, almost biological given.
Her practice recenters the “living” as the matrix of all possible narratives, overturning the logic of photography conceived as evidence and transforming it into a field of experience where shifting truths take shape.
By immersing herself in the depths of detail and proximity, Houda Kabbaj reveals the absolute beauty of natural forms—a silent perfection that transcends the human and questions our ways of inhabiting the world.
Each element becomes a fragment of a broader narrative, in which the memory of the living is transformed into a creative resource.
Rooted in the exploration of territories and extended within the darkroom, her practice offers a poetic and critical approach: nature appears not as a backdrop, but as a physical, spiritual, and philosophical response to contemporary imbalances.
By revealing these micro-worlds that precede us and will outlast us, Houda Kabbaj invites us to rethink photography as an act of relation, a gesture oriented toward possible futures.
RESIDENCES ET EXPOSITIONS
2025 – 2026 « Sveva Caetani – Form and fragment -Museo MAXXI, Rome, Italie
2025 « Les Formes Muette », exposition personnelle, MCC gallery Marrakech, Maroc
2025 1-54, Art Fair , Marrakech, Maroc
2024 Voyage de recherche, Mauritanie.
2024 1-54, Art Fair Insider, Marrakech, Maroc
2023 Caravane Ouadane, residence d’art, Mauritanie .
2023 Kafla, residence d’art, Institue Francais, Maroc
2023 Les Moulins, residence d’art, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France
2020 1-54 Art Fair Insider, Marrakech, Maroc
2019 Du regard de l’autre au regard de soi, exposition collective à la Maison de la Photographie, curaté par Nathalie Locatelli, Lille, France
2019 Art paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, curaté par SoArt Gallery, Paris, France
2018 Immanence, exposition personnelle à SoArt Gallery, Casablanca, Maroc
2016 Diluted Shades, exposition personnelle à La Micro Galerie, Paris, France
2016 Fotover, curaté par La Micro Galerie, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2016 Sublimation, exposition personnelle, curaté par Najia Mehadji, CDG Rabat, Maroc
2016 Empreinte, exposition personnelle, curaté par Mahi Binebine, Marrakech – Biennale 2016, Musée of la Palmeraie, Marrakech, Maroc
2014 Off The Wall, exposition collective, Le Bon Marché, Paris, France
2013 Grid, exposition collective curaté par Alia Sebti, International Biannual – Photography Festival of Amsterdam, Hollande
2010 The Arab World Festival, exposition collective, Montreal, Canada
2009 Davos, exposition collective, curaté par by Nabil Ayouch, Davos, Suisse
FORMATIONS
2023 Formation platine palladium et gravure DTP, Association Empreinte, Paris, France
2022 – 2021 L’Académie des Métiers d’Art, Paris, France
2019 – 2018 Assistante de Diamantino Quintas, tireur fltreur , Paris, France
2012 HMNOP, ESA, Paris, France
2011 Diplômée de l’Ecole Spéciale d’architecture, Paris, France
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2021 Chef de Projet, Getty Estate, United Kingdom
2020 -2019 Architecte et assistante d’atelier, AINU, Paris, France
2016 Curateur et associée, Marrakech Art Biennale, Morocco
2014 -2011 Chef de Projet Manager, Hugh Dutton Associés, Paris, France
