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Sido Lansari

Sido Lansari is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco. He is an alumnus of the post-graduate program at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Lyon. From 2019 to 2022, he was the director of the Cinémathèque de Tanger. His work spans embroidery, textiles, video, photography, and installations, focusing on the representation of queer Arab individuals. Lansari’s work explores the forgotten history of LGBTQ+ people in North Africa and Southwest Asia since the 1970s. In 2018, he directed his first short film, Les derniers paradis, which won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Chéries-Chéris Festival in Paris. His work has been shown at the Habibi, the Revolutions of Love exhibition at Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the Museum of Mediterranean Cultures in Stockholm. He is currently an artist-researcher at the École supérieure d’art de Clermont Métropole.
Other texts by Sido Lansari for DIAPHANES
  • contemporary art
  • desire
  • contemporary art
  • orientalism
  • queer theory
  • Postcolonial Studies