Salima S. El Mandjra
Salima S. El Mandjra is an architect, writer and artist. She currently teaches at the National School of Architecture in Rabat. The dimension relating to the interactions between man(s) and environment(s), on the socio-cultural level as well as the physical and sensory, as well as the creative processes that result graphically, are at the heart of her concerns. This practice, declined in his literary opuscules, was the subject of an exhibition at Le Cube in June 2021.
Recent interventions
Podcast: Interview with Stéphanie Gaou, Radio Les Insolites/ Les Insolites, Tangier 28 July 2022
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Tropical Island, talk with Lisa Grobkopf and Seif Kousmate, Le Cube, Rabat July 4, 2022
Conversation with Rita Aouad and Guillaume Baduel on their book “Un parcours amoureux Rabat”, Le 17 Océan, Rabat June 3, 2022
Communication: From Sense to Sense, as part of the meeting “How to build sustainable cities” organized by the French Institute of Rabat and the Bouregreg Gardening School, Rabat, May 14, 2022
A dreamed garden, literary and botanical walk with the writer-gardener Umberto Pasti, Bouregreg Gardening School, March 30, 2022
Discussion with Rim Laâbi about the composition and the drawings of the editions Au creux du silence, Saisissements and L’espage d’un instant, Fondation Al Mada, Villa des Arts de Rabat, 1 October 2021.
The writing workshop, talk, Le Cube, October 1, 2020
Member of the jury of the photographic competition Regard sur le portrait immatériel de Rabat-Salé, Association Rabat-Salé mémoire, March 2019,
HERstory, curated by Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre, Le Cube – independent art room, February 2018,
Member of the jury of the photographic contest Lumière sur le patrimoine de Rabat-Salé, Association Rabat-Salé mémoire, April 2018,
Jury member, during the 4th edition of the competition of short films Ana Maghribi (a), French Institute of Morocco, in November 2017,
Participation in the project “Féminisme au quotidien” with the artist Anna Raimondo, Exhibition Nous serons sérieuses de la manière la plus heureuse, Le Cube, Rabat, 21 March 2017-20 April 2017,
Les traces de l’invisible, interview with Abdessamad Montassir, Paroles d’artistes directed by Sarah Dornhof, Goethe-Institut Rabat, January 2016,
L’ê/Être au sud, sound piece presented at the public listening session Saout as a state of mind # 3 curated by Saout radio with Anna Raimondo and Elisabeth Zimmerman, Le Cube, May 2016.
Recent publications
Leçons de Ville(s), RABAT, LA VILLE NOUVELLE, Guide d’architecture 1914-1990, Abderrahmane Chorfi, Bouillon de culture, November 2023, Preface pp17-19.
MurMurer, Art Numérique Edition, November 2023.
Le Bâti carcéral au Maroc, Jilali Adnani, Salima S.El Mandjra, Bouillon de Culture 2022
Les instantanés de Hiba Baddou, preface of the exhibition catalogue Osmose by HIba Baddou, 22 October 2021 to 11 November 2021, pp 13-15.
L’Espage d’un instant, Art numérique edition, June 2021
The Green and the Red, in: travelling narratives. Le Cube, 2021, pp 82-103.
The writing workshop, text publication of the talk of October 1, 2020
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Aux architectes de demain, Collector des architectes émergents #14-15, A+E, Architecture et Environnement au Maroc, Editions Archimédia, 2020, p. 30-36.
Saisissements, Art Numérique Edition, Juillet 2020.
Au creux du silence, Art Numérique Edition, Juillet 2020.
L’art au féminin, Artistes & Femmes Rencontres, Lamia Kadiri & Myriem Chraïbi, Art numérique Edition, Novembre 2019, p 11.
Meddeb at the confluence of knowledge, March 2019.
Landscape cities: filling the gaps, February 2018.
The being in itself, this plural so singular, Le Cube 2017-18, 2018, pp.14-21.
The Horizon of Smiles, Khbar Bladna Edition, 2017.
In the city: from place to connections? Le tissu de nos singularités, Vivre ensemble au Maroc, under the direction of Fadma Aït Mouss and Driss Ksikes, En toutes lettres, February 2016, p.191-201.
L’espace du possible, Femmes et religions Points de vue de femmes du Maroc, designed and directed by Hakima Lebbar, Editions la croisée des chemins, and Fan Dok, November 2014, p.173-175.
Beyond appearances, the archi-artist of diversion, exhibition catalogue “compression art recup” by Azzedine Baddou, villa des arts, Casablanca, May-July 2013, p.24-25.
