80.5 × 60.5 cm
Acrylic and oil on canvas
2022
Colourful vertical strokes gather beneath a diffuse light. Their rhythms suggest both trees and human presences. Between cool violets and soft pinks, the painting captures a moment of stillness brought to life by colour.
78 × 54 cm
Acrylique et huile sur bois
Matériaux divers
2022
78 × 54 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed materials
2022
Green and yellow sweep through a warm,almost fiery surface. The forms are still emerging. The painting reveals an energy of growth, as though something were seeking to be born from the earth and from colour.
134.5 × 95 cm
Acrylic on wood
Mixed media
2025
Incandescent colours evoke matter in transformation. Organic forms meet more structured shapes in a composition alive with surges and tensions. The eye follows this movement between expansion and order.
95 × 134.5 cm
Acrylic on wood
Mixed media
2025
Warm and cool colours draw together without losing their differences. Forms find their balance within this tension. The composition embraces opposing elements and brings them into a shared movement.
120 × 80 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed materials — 2023
Fragments of material form a surface shaped by proximity and rupture. Marks and colours retain their individuality while echoing one another. The eye moves from one to the next, as though through a memory composed of scattered traces.
95 × 134.5 cm
Acrylic on wood
Mixed media
2023
The deep blue anchored at the base of the composition suggests stable matter, an unfathomable depth.
On the left, a dense array of colourful square motifs evokes a structure in transformation, while on the right, oblique and intersecting lines stretch towards a more fluid, ethereal space. A gradual transition unfolds from compact matter to dissolution into vastness. Is this a tension between order and chaos, solidity and dispersal, structure and dissolution...?
95.5 × 135 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood — Mixed media
2022
Imprints, marks and textures inhabit the surface without revealing a single narrative. Some marks assert themselves; others merge into the material. The painting becomes a place where gesture leaves its trace and the eye seeks its own connections.
95.5 × 135 cm
Oil on wood — Mixed media
2018
The forms come together in a composition reminiscent of ancestral weaving. Could a dialogue emerge between the painterly gesture and the heritage of the Berber rug?
40 × 121 cm
Oil on wood
Mixed media
2022
A floral fabric, both soft and vibrant, seems to bear traces of the past, while the background swirls with raw, untamed energy. What lies beneath appearances, and what endures despite the passage of time?
95.5 × 135 cm
Acrylic on wood
Mixed materials
2022
Within the blue, luminous forms take shape somewhere between flowers and faces. Their emergence remains uncertain. The painting embraces this hesitation, the moment when a presence begins to form without yet becoming fully recognisable.
95 × 134.5 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
2022
Red emerges beneath the grain of things. Blue makes a narrow passage for it. Furrows retain the trace of the hand. Light lingers there, held within the material, like warmth lingering after dusk.
134.5 × 179 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed materials
2022
Yellow and red sweep through the violets with a force that carries the eye along. The gesture seems to continue beyond the marks it leaves. The surface holds the intensity of this surge, between clashing colours and the movement of the composition.
95.5 × 134.5 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed materials
2022
Warm expanses of colour meet the depths of blue. Passages of colour retain something of the gesture's impulse. The surface remains vibrant, as though the movement of the hand were still unfolding across it.
53 × 78 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed materials
2022
Black cuts pathways through colour. Yellow and white shift the balance of the composition. Forms collide, draw together and set the eye in motion again across the surface.
120 × 80 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
2022
Each fragment holds its own light. Marks cluster together in some places and fade in others. Blue meets ochre at the edge of a square. From one fragment to the next, traces echo one another. Together, they weave a memory.
120 × 80 cm
Mixed media
2022
Red draws its strength from contact with a dark surface. Yellow extends its radiance, while grey holds the folds and textures. Colour seems gradually to claim its space in a movement of emergence.
95,5 × 135 cm Huile sur bois Technique mixte 2018 Des portes rouges s’ouvrent dans l’ocre. Le jour monte entre les formes. Un mur, une fenêtre se devinent. Puis la ville se défait en couleur. Il reste la chaleur d’un lieu.
134 × 212 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
2023
Fragments of colour form a dense composition, suggesting beings gathering and moving among one another. Glimmers of light open pathways. The eye travels through this multitude, unable to resolve it into a single form.
77.5 × 134 cm
Oil on wood
Mixed media
2023
Forms rest against one another within an earth-toned surface. The circle and the lines structure their relationships. Balance emerges through the weight, position and proximity of each element.
100 × 200 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
2020
Plant and architectural forms overlap. The painting brings together what inhabited spaces sometimes separate: nature and human constructions. Light moves through this interweaving, revealing its fragile continuity.
80 × 120 cm
Acrylic and oil
Mixed media
2024
Faces emerge and fade into colour. Some hold the gaze, while others seem to belong to memory. These presences form a shifting memory, where each existence retains its individuality within the whole.
128 × 108 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
2022
The female presence and the movements of the forest echo one another. Birds and light carry this momentum further. The painting leaves open the relationship between the body and its surroundings, between the desire to leave and a sense of belonging.
128.5 × 108.5 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
2025
Can a dreamlike, surreal exploration that dissolves the boundaries between reality and imagination reveal the deep connection between human beings and nature, between movement and instinct? Can it shed light on the sense of freedom, of letting go, and of vital energy flowing between all living beings?
100 – 200 cm
Acrylique et huile sur bois
Technique mixte
2022
Peut-on penser la musique, qui apparait comme un art mystérieux? La philosophie la décrit comme une composante essentielle de la vie, émergeant d’un besoin biologique et sensoriel fondamental. Bien plus qu’un simple «art agréable» elle porte un contenu conceptuel riche : catharsis libératrice des passions humaines, force dionysiaque transcendant la rationalité, expression directe de l’intériorité.
L’art pictural peut-il quant à lui peindre la puissance émotionnelle de la musique ?
120 × 80 cm
Mixed media
2022
The interplay of colour and texture seeks a vibrant energy, between flamenco and abstraction, between sound and light, in an impulse to cross the boundary between reality and imagination.
211 × 134 cm
Acrylic on wood
Mixed media
January 2024
Can art offer answers about our connection with the environment, the duality between immersion and escape, and the boundaries between the elements?
72- 134.5 cm
Acrylique sur bois
Techniques mixtes
2022
Cette œuvre explore la frontière entre lumière et obscurité, conscience et inconscient, élévation et ancrage. Au centre, une femme en méditation est en suspension entre deux réalités. Autour d’elle, des formes éthérées émergent, oscillant entre présence et effacement, entre souvenir et oubli.
Les couleurs chaudes et lumineuses de la partie supérieure contrastent avec les tons froids et diffus du bas, renforçant cette dualité entre deux états d’existence. La méditation devient ici un passage, un pont entre deux mondes, un chemin vers la transcendance.
80 × 120 cm
Acrylic and oil
Mixed media
2024
Yellow buds hold the promise of uncertain growth, while raised geometric forms offer a contrast through their rigidity and mineral presence. Could a dialogue emerge between the ephemeral and the constructed?
80 × 120 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
2025
In the context of craftsmanship, do pots still being finished, poised between the raw and the complete, evoke a sense of process rather than finality? Might human life, as it unfolds towards its end, share something of pottery's meaning?
60 × 50 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
A weapon wages war; a weapon makes peace.
A weapon expresses the joy of living together;
a weapon conveys hatred of the other.
60 × 60 cm
Oil on canvas
2026
At the foot of the mosque, the music and gestures of flamenco meet the forms of Islamic art. The painting brings together cultural expressions shaped by a history of movement and exchange. The setting becomes a meeting place across the centuries.
60 × 50 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
The walls and zellige tiles retain traces of the hands that shaped the house. The place holds a history that the painting explores through colour and texture. Architecture becomes a presence, familiar and imbued with the passage of time.
50 × 40 cm
Oil on canvas
2026
A woman stands in a setting defined by zellige tiles and architecture. Her presence connects inherited patterns with the gestures of the present. Culture emerges through this quiet continuity between people and the spaces they inhabit.
60 × 50 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
Two figures share an interior that opens onto a garden. The colours connect the softness of the room with that of the world outside. The scene captures a moment of closeness, where everyday gestures lend depth to time spent together.
75 × 60 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
2022
Light reveals the walls, stones and passageways of the Kasbah. Shadows preserve their depth. In the stillness of the place, the architecture offers glimpses of a history that remains alive to the eye.
120 × 75 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
2021
The presence of the ramparts meets the openness of the sea. The warm colours of the architecture stand against the expanse of water. The painting captures this proximity between a place shaped by history and a horizon that seems to elude it.
60 × 60 cm
Huile sur toile
2012
Les remparts gardent la trace d’une histoire de protection et de pouvoir. À leur proximité, le jardin introduit un autre rythme. La peinture rapproche la permanence de la pierre et la vie plus changeante des formes végétales.
80 × 60 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
Two gazes confront one another. The chained dog and the free horses heighten the tension of the scene. A silent woman watches it unfold. The composition brings strength, memory and the possibilities of freedom into dialogue.
80 × 80 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
A round tray, steaming tea, honey and golden fritters.
In the sweetness of shared flavours, time is tamed, and life, for a moment, allows itself to be gently won over.
80 × 60 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
Beneath the shattered stones, music rises.
Two bodies seek each other, hold each other, take flight.
The piano beats like a steadfast heart,
and in the dust of the ruins, a fragile light is born.
68 × 58 cm
Oil on wood
2021
Movement and light suggest a desire for openness. The landscape becomes a space where the body and imagination can gather momentum. The painting embraces this sense of departure, between being present in the world and longing for the open sea.
60 × 60 cm
Oil on wood
2012
Is this exotic, mysterious landscape a hymn to the beauty and diversity of nature, to peace and serenity? Does the presence of wild animals remind us of the importance of protecting biodiversity, while questioning how little is being done to preserve it?
60 × 50 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
Two figures share an interior that opens onto a garden. The colours connect the softness of the room with that of the world outside. The scene captures a moment of closeness, where everyday gestures lend depth to time spent together.
105 × 105 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
2018
Are capturing the simple, peaceful beauty of rural life in autumn, escaping into a tranquil landscape and appreciating its beauty not forms of communion with nature? Human presence is never far away. It is suggested by the distant village, the house beside the lake and the boat awaiting a fisherman or a wanderer, absent from the scene yet evoked by it.
122 × 60 cm
Oil on wood
2014
The colours of the trees mark the passage of time and the cycles of life.
The path and the water invite contemplation and reflection, a connection with nature and an appreciation of its beauty.
57 × 72 cm
Acrylic on wood
2011
Soft light creates an atmosphere of calm and serenity, gently slipping between the bare trees and unfurling in the air like a soothing breeze, while colourful flowers glow with life and hope. The path, a symbol of journey and discovery, invites us to lose ourselves in contemplation of the landscape.
60-50cm
Huile sur bois
2010
La nature est-elle une invitation à la rêverie et à la communion ?
Le contraste entre la force et la majesté de la montagne, et la fragilité et la douceur de la brume, nous rappelle-t-il cette dualité, ce mouvement cyclique, cet équilibre changeant entre vigueur et vulnérabilité, construction et dissolution, émergence et effacement ? Mais n’évoque-t-il pas par ailleurs que la force peut aussi exister sous des formes de résilience, d'adaptation ou de sagesse ?
76 × 52.5 cm
Oil on wood
2012
The eye travels through the forest towards the distance. Passages of light and variations in colour lend depth to the landscape. The painting embraces this contemplative movement, where the closeness of the trees meets the openness of the horizon.
60-60 cm
Huile sur bois
2012
Le jeu de lumière sur les feuillages et les reflets subtils de l’eau cré une atmosphère paisible et réaliste, une impression de vitalité et de nature luxuriante. La présence des oiseaux ajoute une touche vivante et une narration implicite d’une nature préservée et paisible, où règne une certaine sérénité.
120 × 140 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
2023
Movement here affirms women's freedom. Its momentum opens up space and shifts boundaries. The painting gives tangible form to the possibility of claiming one's place and following one's own path.
100 – 200 cm
Acrylique et huile sur bois
Technique mixte
2023
Gesture takes flight, as though escaping gravity. Music becomes an invisible thread between bodies, colour a breath that carries them. In this groundless space, each movement opens up a possibility of freedom.
88 × 108 cm
Acrylic and oil on wood
2024
To break free from the weight of the past or the unconscious, to unsettle the tension between the earthly and the ethereal, to release the impulse towards light: dance is perhaps the most powerful embodiment of freedom through gesture.
88 × 108 cm
Oil on wood
January–July 2024
The body's momentum through space: a sense of lightness, grace, strength and freedom...
Dance is a pure expression of movement.
80 × 80 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
One path holds different rhythms. Trajectories draw together yet remain distinct. Speeds set them apart within a space they share.
880 × 60 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
The sky breaks open in flames,
walls fall, voices fade.
Yet in her arms, a child breathes.
Human beings destroy, human beings give life,
and humanity teeters
between cradle and ash.
80 × 80 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
Eating is an act of survival shaped by culture through the ages. It is also influenced by human philosophical convictions: omnivory, inherited from our animal origins, has yielded some ground to vegetarianism, with its concern for animal life, and even to veganism, which takes that concern further.
50 × 40 cm
Oil on canvas
2025
A thin trickle of water bears witness to its silent retreat. Stranded boats, ready to sail in vain, reveal a world losing its bearings. The mountain itself darkens, as though holding its breath in the face of scarcity. In the distance, human silhouettes waver in a light too harsh to bear. Fish remains, stones and dried traces tell a story of waiting and fragility. With this balance broken, people, like the land, are left vulnerable.
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
2026
His feet finally touched the land he had imagined for so long, and his exhausted body found, on solid ground, a fragile sense of safety. He was alive. That should have been enough to give the journey meaning.
But though he had left the sea behind, it had not left him. He carried the faces of those who had disappeared, the echo of cries swallowed by the waves, and the memory of a dream already scarred.
As for the shore that, from afar, had seemed to mark the journey’s end, it was only the beginning of another unknown.
He had arrived, yet something of him had remained out there, between two shores. For reaching the shore does not necessarily mean arriving.
Oil on canvas 50 × 40 cm 2026 They were there together, at an age when they should not have had to look elsewhere for a future. The unemployment of those who had come before them had taught them how difficult it was to open the door to work. The days passed with the strange feeling that nothing ever truly began. A few things to do, conversations going round in circles, plans that led nowhere. After so much waiting, even time seemed to have stood still. They looked around and saw not only poverty, but above all paths closing before they had even been taken. And so, life elsewhere began to occupy more and more of their conversations. Not because they knew what they would find there, but because life here seemed to promise them nothing more. One can live with little for a long time. It is harder to live without a horizon.
Acrylic and oil on wood
Mixed media
95.5 × 135 cm
2022
“Suspended Dreams” opens the cycle “The Shipwrecked of Despair”. Through surges of colour and uncertain forms, this abstract painting evokes aspirations seeking a way forward, lives on hold, and hope that remains fragile.
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
2026
A thin trickle bears witness to the water’s silent retreat. The stranded boats, ready to sail to no avail, reveal a world losing its bearings. Here too, something has withdrawn. With the water go familiar gestures, daily livelihoods, and the possibility of imagining a future. The landscape remains, but it no longer holds the same promises. People leave a land not only because another beckons, but also because the hope of continuing to live there is fading. Long before the crossing comes a quiet sorrow that slowly erodes the will to stay, as the place one belongs to becomes uninhabitable. And so departure begins, silently, at the edge of the absent water.
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
2026
They were at an age when they could hope for a life of modest comfort without leaving behind all that had shaped their early years. But as their horizons closed in, the burden of separation grew lighter with the breath of a hope kindled by the lights of distant shores. And so their eyes turned towards the horizon. They did not leave because they knew where they were going, but because staying had exhausted all hope and seemed to leave them only a leap—even into the unknown. And behind that hope, darkness lay hidden.
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
2026
The other side of the fence was close enough to see, yet distant enough to become a dream.
There, seen from afar, the details of an ordinary life took on a heightened radiance: a road stretching into the distance, shimmering lights, cars heading towards destinations that left the imagination free to wander. That glow was enough to conjure, beyond the visible, everything the eyes could not reach.
The fence stood forbiddingly between two worlds: one where possibilities had narrowed, and another that the imagination had expanded until its boundaries had almost vanished.
As the wait dragged on, the dream ceased to be a wish: it became a necessity.
And beyond the fence, the mirage grew ever more alluring as the moment of the leap drew near.
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
2026
Not every body withstood the waves.
Arms grew weary, breathing became laboured, and what had seemed only a short distance became a world without shores.
Some fought with their last ounce of strength. Then a face vanished beneath the water, and an arm reached out until the very last moment, still searching for a hand to hold.
The sea did not care. The tireless waves rolled on. Only the body ceased to struggle.
On the shore, they will count those who arrived, and perhaps those who disappeared. But numbers have short memories. In a mother’s heart, torn apart by grief, there is no room for forgetting. And the survivors will carry with them faces that will never leave them.
There, somewhere between two shores, a body drowned, a dream sank.
Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
2026
They entered the water, leaving hesitation behind. The horizon was no longer distant, and the dream was no longer merely a few lights glimpsed from the other shore.
Their bodies withstood the waves, exhaustion and fear, until land appeared close at hand. For a moment, the sea offered the illusion of a promise it had never made.
But setting foot on land did not end the ordeal.
On that land, in which they had placed so much hope, someone was waiting—not to welcome them, but to remind their exhausted bodies of the meaning of those borders they thought they had left behind.
Only then did they understand that reaching the shore did not mean arriving.
Beyond the sea, a fence without barbed wire awaited them.
Abderrahim Labyad, Moroccan painter based between Casablanca and Paris. My work explores light, movement and memory, moving between abstraction and figuration.