Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high production aesthetics, Meriem Bennani (b. 1988, Rabat, Morocco) explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of magical realism and humour. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures, and immersive installations, composed with a subtle agility to question our contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies. Bennani’s work has been shown at: CLEARING, New York (2022); The Kitchen, New York (2022); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); MoMA PS1, New York (2016); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2019), to name a few. Her animated series, 2 Lizards, a collaboration with director Orian Barki, premiered on Instagram during Spring 2020 and was described by The New York Times as “hypnotic… deploying a blend of documentary structure and animation surrealism… both poignantly grounded in actual events and also soothingly fantastical” and its animated protagonists “art stars”. (Jon Caramanica, April 2020)