FINALIST OF THE ELLIPSE PRIZE 2026

Sabrine Lahrach

Sabrine Lahrach is a visual artist born in 1996 in Oujda, graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan.

Sabrine Lahrach
finalist of the ellipse prize
dedicated to Morocco

She develops a textile practice deeply connected to intimacy, nourished by the experience of her father’s illness and by the sewing gestures transmitted by her mother, a seamstress. Through embroidery, assemblage and ornamentation, she constructs a visual language in which care, memory and repair occupy a central place.

The artist covers organic forms with beads, threads, silicone and precious textures, giving her works a dimension that is both sensitive and almost sacred.

After the pain, the healing

Between attraction and vulnerability, these meticulously crafted surfaces evoke skin, scars and wounds in transformation. By using textile art as a space of reconstruction, Sabrine Lahrach explores the fragility of the body and the traces left by human experiences.

Her works thus give form to an intimate memory where suffering and resilience coexist in a delicate balance.