ABOUT

Statement

Although physical geographies seem to echo hostility, the utopian notion of world society has never been as technically reachable as it is through the digital. The internet has enabled a wider map of representations doubled with an instant way of accessing information.

More importantly, the digital revolution made us aware of our contemporaries and their ideas, all around the world and in real time. For the art world, the internet appears to be the perfect space for experimenting with borderlessness, multicultural appreciation, and finally, fully digital formats.

Since everyone produces images, everyone produces information. Paradoxically, because of the accuracy of algorithms targeting, this supposedly widens the spectrum of diverse information and ends up looking like a comfortable bubble of pleasing and like-minded data sharers.

Thirty years ago, Flusser wrote that we were entering a Post-historical and dimensionless era through and within which all our information would merge together to form a “global brain”. this visionary statement raised sociological implications including mutational notions of cultures and the contemporary relevance of nationality within cyberspace worldwide.

YASMINE LARAQUI

Yasmine Laraqui is a cultural entrepreneur and multimedia designer born in 1989 in Casablanca. She holds a BFA from ENSA Paris-Cergy (2012), an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2014),

Currently lives in Casablanca

Yasmine started curating shows when she was an art student and exhibited her works in France, Morocco, the U.S, the U.K, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Italy, and China for exhibitions, fairs, and biennales including the Marrakech Biennale, Photo L.A, 1;54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and PhotoMed Festival amongst others. 
Yasmine also co-founded Youth's Talking and Awiiily (2010-2014), two independent curatorial structures promoting non-conformist international artists, with an emphasis on emerging Moroccan artists. 

She opened Dasthe Art Space and Agency in Casablanca in September 2017. After seven shows, more than 30 artists represented and the Covid crisis, she came back with LY Connects.