FINALIST OF THE ELLIPSE PRIZE 2026
El Hadi Fekrouni
Born in 1994, Moroccan painter El Hadi Fekrouni develops an intimate exploration through the materiality of painting.
El Hadi Fekrouni
finalist of the ellipse prize
dedicated to Morocco
El Hadi Fekrouni’s introspective practice places him within contemplative landscapes that function as projections of an inner state marked by solitude and withdrawal. These environments, conceived as idyllic sanctuaries, become sensitive spaces suspended between presence and absence.
Within these atmospheric compositions, a solitary figure appears to move through an intermediate space, as though caught between different states of being.
Embrace the loneliness
The sea, the horizon and deserted expanses become territories of transition where time seems slowed down, almost motionless. Through this deeply personal approach, El Hadi Fekrouni transforms isolation into visual poetry.
His images do not evoke an escape from reality, but rather a way of fully inhabiting solitude in order to reveal its meditative, fragile and universal dimension.
