Malika Sqalli

I am an artist of Austrian and Moroccan descent, between photography, mixed media and poetry.

I am also a qualified personal trainer, kettle bell coach and NLP practitioner. I was honoured to do a Tedx Talk in 2013 in Casablanca and I am fully licensed skydiver nd camerawoman in freewill which led to an abstract series in the sky.

Coming from a mixed culture background and having lived in various countries and without my family around me from an early age - the notion of home as a place or as a tribe and emotion is something that makes me feel foreign and belonging in many places and none at the same time. Therefore the idea of home, culture, fixed or moving identity, place and Re mythologizing reality is a very fertile ground for investigation. We are creatures of habits and habitus makes habitat and comfort zone, and home ( not implying here any positive or negative ). Even more today with a world so ever mobile, by choice or by circumstance. We end up looking for the familiar, what reminds us of the far away, what looks similar , what draws a bridge, and for some boundaries.
Home therefore is for me this obscure concept that eludes a simple definition, a nomenclature for a plethora ideas, attachment to things, place, s...

Selected Exhibitions

2017 Betwixt and Between Fotografie Museum Antwerpen - Belgium
2016 Flight Photoplace Gallery Vermont USA
2016 Optimism at AbGlobal London UK
2016 Optimism at André Heller’s Anima Gardens gallery Marrakech Morocco
2015 Stories and Secrets at Photoplace Gallery Vermont USA
2015 Awan Arab Women Artist group show London
2015        Optimism Ahead Solo show at the Arab British Centre London
2013        Speaker at TEDx Casablanca about Latitude 34
2013        Latitude 34, Solo Exhibition at Fondation CDG Rabat Morocco
2013        Latitude 34, Solo Exhibition at Sharq, Los Angeles Ca.
2012        Latitude 34, Solo Exhibition, whitespec, Atlanta, GA
2012        Group Show Debut Contemporary London
2011        Latitude 34, Solo Exhibition, Cube Independent Art Space Rabat, Morocco
2011        The Los Angeles Collection, Group Exhibition, Seoul Art Fair
2011        I love LA, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2011        Time Machine Ut, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2011        Contrasts, Group Exhibition, Lauderdale House, London
2011        Scapes, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
2011        Heal the Bay, Photo Show, Los Angeles, CA
2011        Biennal Iz...