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We’re excited to welcome you to the opening on August 27th from 6 to 9 PM!

For Snakes and Ladders – his first solo exhibition in Latvia – the French-Moroccan artist Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel presents a site-specific floor installation and a series of drawings on paper.

In his practice, Bouzoubaa-Grivel departs from drawing as his main medium, creating works on paper as well as sculptural pieces that translate his drawing style into three-dimensional forms. Always pushing drawing to its limit, with Snakes and Ladders, he explores how the medium can be expanded into space.

Bouzoubaa-Grivel’s distinctive drawing style replicates digitally generated imagery while being realised through a slow, manual process. Created line by line, pixel by pixel, his drawings mimic digital aesthetics while countering the speed of contemporary image production. His approach has developed through research into optic effects first encountered in crystals under the microscope and later recognised in digital screens, where dense arrangements of lines trick the eye into perceiving movement within static compositions. In his work, space and volume become the driving principles of image creation, developing as a play between flatness and three-dimensionality.

The artist’s interest in abstraction draws from a wide range of sources: his background in graphic design and typography, a fascination with topographic and architectural drawings, abstract comics, and North African traditions such as Amazigh tapestry, zellige, and marquetry. In culturally Muslim image traditions, abstraction often takes precedence over figuration, seeking a connection to the divine realm through shape, form, and visual density. In Bouzoubaa-Grivel’s drawings, visual saturation connects his work to his Moroccan heritage, while simultaneously aligning with abstract and post-digital currents in contemporary art.

– Anna Laganovska

Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel (b. 1992) is a French-Moroccan artist working between France and Morocco.

He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

His practice explores the tension between digital and manual image-making, translating visual elements from the digital realm into hand-drawn forms that blur the lines between print and gesture, abstraction and illusion.

He has exhibited in numerous group shows at institutions including the Fondation Pernod Ricard, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research (Paris), La Panacée – MOCO (Montpellier), Fiminco Foundation (Romainville), Wallonia-Brussels Center (Paris), Komplot (Brussels), and the TGCC Foundation (Casablanca).

He has participated in international residencies at the Cité Internationale des

Arts (Paris), Villa Belleville (Paris), the Boghossian Foundation at Villa Empain (Brussels), Jester (Genk, Belgium), and the Montresso Art Foundation (Marrakech).

His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Drawing Prize from the Hugot Foundation – Collège de France (2019), the Takesada Matsutani Prize (2020), and the Mustaqbal Prize (2024).

Support: VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation), La Fondation des Artistes, Kim?, Auss