Zineb Ben Jelloun (Morocco)

Zineb Benjelloun is an artist trained in visual arts and documentary cinema. After serving as a documentary manager in a TV channel, Zineb whas been focused on her visual art and writing since 2012. She contributed to several publications in visual arts including Samandal à Beyrouth, Skefkef et Dyptique à Casablanca, Slanted à Berlin etc...) and participated to several exhibitions such as Le 18 et Voice gallery in Marrakech, Ministerium für Illustration in Berlin, Le cube in Rabat, la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris and more. Zineb also creates illustrations for children’s books, comic books, visual identities for cultural events and workshops, in Morocco and abroad.
With her urban cartographies, her portraits and illustrations, she invites us to rediscover our everyday environment through its smallest details while questioning their historicity and place in the collective imagination.
Zineb lives in Casablanca and has just published her first graphic novel with the help of the visual arts fellowship afac (arab fund for art and culture).