Safaa Erruas

Biography

Safaa Erruas’s abstract sculptures and installations are characterised by the predominance of the colour white. Starting with fabrics associated with traditional Moroccan dressmaking as well as different types of paper, Erruas disrupts the often refined white surfaces with metal objects of various kinds and dimensions, creating striking contrasts between the purity and neutrality of the background and the sharp objects that pierce it.

Solo exhibitions of her work have included Silence et Oxymores, Villa Delaporte, Casablanca (2010); Prémonitions II, Institut Français, Rabat (2008), Prémonitions, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier (2008) and Les Oreillers [The Pillows], Le Cube, Independent Art Room, Rabat (2006). Her works have also been exhibited in group shows at institutions such as the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2016); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain (2016); the 12th Bienal de la Habana, Cuba (2015); Institut du monde arabe, Paris (2013); Villa Matisse, Marrakesh (2010); 25th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, Egypt (2009) and Dak’Art: Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Senegal (2006). Her work The Moon Inside of Me won the Biennale award in Alexandria (2009). Erruas is a member of Collectif 212, a collective of contemporary Moroccan artists.

She graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Tétouan in 1998.

Erruas was born in 1976 in Tétouan, Morocco, where she continues to live and work.