Ali Maimoun is a self-taught Moroccan visual artist. He initially turned to stone sculpture and then to carving thuya roots, creating human and animal figures, before expanding his practice to painting. His work explores scenes from everyday life while incorporating motifs drawn from African mythologies and Amazigh rituals.

His universe—at once tribal, African, Berber, and dreamlike—defies classification. Through paintings and sculptures, he makes visible the invisible links between human beings, animals, the sky, and the earth. His compositions, devoid of conventional perspective, are saturated with interwoven forms and colors that are at times vivid, at times subtle, creating a dense yet harmonious space.

Ali Maimoun has developed a singular technique that blends painting and sculpture, notably using colored sawdust that is shaped and integrated into the surface. This material gives his works a tactile and vibrant dimension. Inspired by nature and ancestral traditions, his art expresses a deep vital force, nourished by dreams, memory, and age-old knowledge.