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Moroccan artist

Mounir Fatmi (born in Tangier, Morocco) is a Moroccan artist. His multimedia practice encompasses video, installation, drawing, painting and sculpture, and he works with obsolete materials.^[1]

Biography

Born in the city of Tangiers, he spent a majority of his time the neighborhood of Casabarata.

This neighborhood was known as one of the poorest in the city. He would often spend his time in the flea market, where his mother made a living by selling children's clothing. It was in this very environment that he found himself surrounded by commonly used objects and waste products.^[2]

As a young boy, he traveled to Rome where he studied at the free school of nude drawing and engraving at the Academy of Arts, and then later at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca, Morocco (), School of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy (),^[3] and finally studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.^[4]

In , he won the Uriöt prize, the gran