Born in 1990 in Marrakech, Adil Kourkouni is a Moroccan visual artist whose fascination with drawing and painting emerged at a very young age. He trained at the School of Fine Arts in Tétouan and later at the Higher School of Visual Arts in Marrakech (ESAV), where he developed an expressive style centered on the human face and emotional depth.

Kourkouni’s paintings open a window into an intimate universe filled with imagination, vulnerability, physical and mental struggles, but also moments of joy and clarity. The canvas becomes a space of release — a mirror reflecting personal states of mind as well as the tensions of a society searching for truth, justice and light.

Alongside painting, he early experimented with sculpture, carving small aluminum plaques that later became central characters in his photographic works. By repurposing everyday materials — posters, magazine pages, vinyl sleeves — he creates unique photomontages shaped by light, timing and unexpected perspectives.

His work, inseparable from the unease of a complex and oppressive social environment, portrays a soul striving to transcend its own reality while questioning the world’s contradictions.