Sabrine LAHRACH is a young artist from Oujda.
Her training at the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tétouan, from which she graduated top of her class in 2018, sharpened her artistic sensitivity, endowing her with a mastery of several plastic techniques necessary for the development of her numerous projects and has changed her outlook on the world, which is reflected in the themes that haunt her.
She is interested in man (his relationships with time, space, work, his existence, etc.), in objects and their characteristics as well as in the machine and its gears.

She draws her inspiration from her childhood and the surroundings where she grew up in the middle of her modest and joyful family through mental images anchored in her memory that she revisits and represents in the form of photos, drawings, engravings, collages. , facilities,...

His first source of inspiration is now his embroiderer mother and her sewing machine. The gestures and materials of this constitute its subject matter and its field of investigation. She seems fascinated by needles, spools of thread, fabrics and fine papers which she reinterprets differently by redesigning and/or intertwining them to arrive at new shapes and compositions highlighting the tiny details which immerse the receiver of her works. in a strangely silent world where the industrial elements of the sewing machine sometimes become more assertive, sometimes fade under the subtle touch of the artist and float as if they emerged from dreams.
Certainly, the apparent subject is the artist's mother's sewing machine, an apparently banal object. Nevertheless, its multiple representations by Sabrine Lahrach with insistence, even obstinacy, should provoke the viewer.
The many techniques and materials delicately used and juxtaposed reflect memories, awareness, love, admiration and sensitivity.
They reflect the indelible memories of a serene childhood cradled in fluffy fabrics skillfully embroidered by the loving hands of the mother and punctuated by the regular rustling of her sewing machine.
They reflect an acute awareness of the benefits of a nurturing artisanal profession which allowed women to be autonomous, productive and even creative without moving away from their children all day to work against their will in slave textile factories.
They reflect a devouring love and admiration of the talents of an active and affectionate mother; reflect a refined sensitivity to materials, tools and artistic techniques.