Latifa Echakhch Night Time Past Mar 26 – May 4, 2022 London Exhibition Details:Latifa EchakhchNight TimeMar 25 – May 4, 2022 (opens in a new window) Schedule Your VisitGallery:5 Hanover SquareLondonPress:Press ReleaseConnect: (opens in a new window) @pacegallery (opens in a new window) @latifa.echaAbove: Latifa Echakhch, Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch), 2022 © Latifa Echakhch Pace Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Moroccan-born, Swiss-based artist, Latifa Echakhch. This exhibition coincides with her representation of Switzerland at the 59th Venice Biennale, underscoring this landmark moment in her career. Marking her first exhibition with the gallery since joining Pace’s roster, Night Time will present a suite of new paintings across the ground floor galleries of 5 Hanover Square.Informed by the ways in which everyday objects and imagery can be transfigured into signifiers of identity, history, and mythology, Latifa Echakhch’s practice takes the form of painting, installation, sculpture, and sound. Describing her work as “a question of power and postures”, Echakhch states she has “no other goals but questioning the world around me”. Throughout her career, Echakhch has constructed a visual vocabulary of signs, systems, and references that are rooted in her impulse to convey the experience of a feeling, to transcend that which is easily defined and arrive at the intangible.Night Time is connected to The Concert, her presentation at the Swiss pavilion in Venice, where she will employ abstract conditions of light, form, and sound theory to provoke an experience akin to “leaving a concert”, in which a visitor’s “heartbeat [is] transformed, more calm, more intense”. The new body of work at Pace in London is the artist’s most figurative to date, bringing the presence of the body into her distinctive visual lexicon. Enlisting ideas of theatricality and performativity, this exhibition transforms the galleries into an immersive environment in which Echakhch controls the viewing conditions of her work, inviting visitors into her world.The paintings in Night Time begin with photographs taken by a friend of Echakhch, the photographer Sim Ouch. Characterized by high exposure and enigmatic compositions in which bodies and limbs are entangled or twisted, the images capture the nightlife of their community of friends in Lausanne, Switzerland. Echakhch employs a naive fresco method of painting to transpose these images onto canvas, which she treats with a mix of concrete and vinyl glue. Once set, Echakhch cuts into the dense material, a violent and labor-intensive process that leaves cracks and voids in the composition, revealing fragmented bodies in motion below. The striations in the concrete speak at once to geography of maps and the mountainous landscape that surrounds her studio in Switzerland, as well as the histories of formalism and abstraction.The physicality of both the material and the artist’s process of making gives the artworks a bodily, quasi-sculptural quality that imbues them with ideas of temporality. By presenting the paintings in a darkened room, Echakhch controls the viewer’s access to the work, extending the atmosphere of the nightlife images into the viewer’s space. In so doing, the viewer becomes both participant and spectator, at once part of the mass of bodies and separate to the spectral figures that move mysteriously beneath the paintings’ rocky surface. Read More Featured Works Latifa Echakhch, Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch), 2022, Acrylic and concrete on canvas, 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") Learn More Close modal Latifa Echakhch Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch) 2022 Acrylic and concrete on canvas 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Latifa Echakhch, Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch), 2022, Acrylic and concrete on canvas, 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") Learn More Close modal Latifa Echakhch Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch) 2022 Acrylic and concrete on canvas 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Latifa Echakhch, Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch) (diptyque), 2022, Acrylic and concrete on canvas, 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") each panel 200.2 cm × 300.4 cm × 4 cm (78-13/16" × 9' 10-1/4" × 1-9/16") overall Learn More Close modal Latifa Echakhch Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch) (diptyque) 2022 Acrylic and concrete on canvas 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") each panel 200.2 cm × 300.4 cm × 4 cm (78-13/16" × 9' 10-1/4" × 1-9/16") overall Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Latifa Echakhch, Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch) (diptyque), 2022, Acrylic and concrete on canvas, 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") each panel 200.2 cm × 300.4 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 9' 10-1/4" × 1") overall Learn More Close modal Latifa Echakhch Night Time (As Seen by Sim Ouch) (diptyque) 2022 Acrylic and concrete on canvas 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1") each panel 200.2 cm × 300.4 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 9' 10-1/4" × 1") overall Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Installation Views 1/9 2/9 3/9 4/9 5/9 6/9 7/9 8/9 9/9 Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Carousel slide 6 Carousel slide 7 Carousel slide 8 About the ArtistCurrently based in the Swiss cities of Martigny and Vevey, Latifa Echakhch was born in 1974 in El Khnansa, Morocco. When she was three, her family relocated to France, where she attended the École supérieure d’Art de Grenoble and later received degrees from the National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise and the Lyon National School of Fine Arts. She began her studio practice in 2001.Learn More Journal View All Exhibitions Our Artists in Gwangju Apr 03, 2023 Pace Live Experience Pace Live's Summer Season Jul 24, 2022 Pace Live Watch Ndoho Ange, Maëva Berthelot, and KINN Perform Live from Latifa Echakhch's Night Time Jul 12, 2022 News Swiss Art Council Announces Latifa Echakhch's Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Jan 25, 2022 Overview Featured Works Installation Views About the Artist Journal