Marwan Sekkat is a Quebec-based French-Moroccan interdisciplinary artist. Simulation, the living world, détournement, error and the absurd are his core interests. Although digital technology is not the focus of his work, it is his preferred ally and tool for questioning our (his) contemporary world. His work unfolds in the spatial layout of installations that explore the concepts of time, modernity, and progress. His current research questions and deconstructs his relationship to his cultural identities. In staging and freezing different memories in time, he is creating a body of work centred on the notion of transmission in various forms. His practice explores the relationship between individual and collective memory, which inevitably places him within a decolonial approach.

While the colonial history linking France and Morocco are one of the departure points of his artistic research, his life in Quebec has allowed him to include new vantage points and reflection issues in his practice. His artistic approach builds bridges between experimentation and hands-on work. The transdisciplinary nature of his practice resonates with the multiplicity of his cultural identity. By combining different digital mediums, such as computer simulation, automation, and glitch art, with traditional crafts such as botany and traditional Moroccan embroidery, he reappropriates parts of his identity and family history. In this way, he develops a creative grammar that embodies his cultural heritage.

Marwan Sekkat has been selected by Caravansérail as part of the PRÉSENCES project. Following his residency at Centre SAGAMIE, he will take part in a group exhibition at Caravansérail in summer 2026.

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