Safâa Erruas

Safaa (or Safâa) Erruas, born in 1976 in Tétouan, is a Moroccan artist.

Biography Safaa Erruas was born in 1976 in Tétouan, Morocco. After a year of higher education at the Faculty of Sciences of Tétouan, she changed her course of studies and opted for artistic training. She graduated from the in 1998. Her work, abstract and minimalist, is most often dominated by a single color, white, which symbolizes for her, immateriality, silence, fragility in drawings that also include sutures, cuts and seams, like unhealed wounds. She also includes pointed or sharp elements, such as needles, razor blades, knives, and thread.

Career Erruas lives and works in Tétouan, and exhibits in Morocco, and since 1998, internationally. In 2009, she was also selected as one of five significant female artists of the new generation of female artists in the Muslim world for a New York exhibition organized by MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts). In 2016, her work was exhibited in Paris as part of the Contemporary Art and Design Fair focused on Africa, Also Known As Africa (AKAA), at the Carreau du Temple, then again in 2018 at the same fair. She also exhibited in 2017 in London in an annual fair devoted to contemporary art from the African continent.