Hassan Hajjaj - currently artist in focus at the British Portrait Gallery, London


Kesh Angels, 2017

Uniquely, this is a signed edition number 200 of 200 numbered in pencil recto
Lithographic print
42 x 60 cm
200/200 Published by Somerset House


Iconic image - only this edition of the 200 has been signed by the artist. 


Limited edition print on Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite 216gsm archival quality acid free paper. 


This iconic image featured in the Hassan Hajjaj exhibition at Somerset House in 2017 La Caravane: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/hassan-hajjaj-la-caravane


THIS ITEM IS FOR COLLECTION ONLY, EITHER LONDON W10 OR OXTED, SURREY. OR CONTACT SELLER.

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Hassan Hajjaj is a contemporary photographer, designer, and filmmaker. In perhaps his best known series, ‘Kesh Angels where Hajjaj captures the unique street culture of young female bikers in Marrakesh. He is one of Morocco’s preeminent international artists.

Designed to conflate Western perceptions of Arabic society, Hajjaj uses the language of fashion photography, to produce portraits of figures dressed in colourful North African garb. Often set within frames of consumer products the artist’s images recontextualise both fine art photography and popular culture. 


Hajjaj is called his native country’s answer to Andy Warhol.

The iconic image is discussed here in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/may/23/hassan-hajjajs-best-photograph-kesh-angels-girl-biker-gang-of-morrocco

 

Here in the Financial Times:

British-Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj — ‘the dynamism of the street’

This Somerset House exhibition is a statement about collectivity and collaboration across disparate territories https://www.ft.com/content/b9001d88-a9c2-11e7-ab66-21cc87a2edde


And here in the British Journal of Photography:

https://www.1854.photography/2017/09/hajjaj-somerset-house/