FINALIST OF THE ELLIPSE PRIZE 2026

Mohamed Ahnach

Mohamed Ahnach is a multidisciplinary artist born in 2001 in Aguelmous, Khénifra, Morocco.

Mohamed Ahnach
finalist of the ellipse prize
dedicated to Morocco

Through photography, installation and the assemblage of organic materials, he creates compositions in which decomposition becomes a space of transformation. Fragments of bones, inert animals, withered flowers and altered materials form a visual language that is both unsettling and contemplative.

By reactivating what appears extinguished, the artist reveals a fragile vitality suspended between disappearance and rebirth.

Remnants of the being

His works give rise to scenes where vulnerability, spirituality and resilience intersect.

Mohamed Ahnach invites viewers to perceive finitude not as a rupture, but as a state of perpetual mutation, where the uncanny becomes a sensitive territory for introspection.