Laila Hida
Laila Hida is a Moroccan artist and cultural worker based in Marrakech. For over a decade, she has been committed to creating potential spaces for encounter, conversation, and experimentation both within her own research and for the broader community.
Working primarily with photography, she explores the relationship between spaces, images, and the narratives that shape physical and symbolic territories. Her work engages with the ambivalence of photography as both an archival document and a catalyst for fiction. Her recent project, Le Voyage du Phoenix, investigates how photography, literature, and cinema have contributed to the construction of the “regime of desire” throughout the 20th century.
In 2013, she founded LE 18 Marrakech, a multidisciplinary cultural space and artist residency in the medina. The project extends her interest in examining how environments, social, architectural, and geographic shape artistic production, mediation, and research methodologies.
She has curated numerous programs in Morocco and internationally, including LE 18’s collective contribution to documenta fifteen. She is also the founder of Dabaphoto, an annual program dedicated to photography and image-making in Morocco, now in its eighth edition. In 2024, she curated the Art Explora Festival in Tangier and Rabat.
Laila@DAI:
20 & 21 November 2025 ~ St. Erme, France ~ Kitchen Responding.