OHrGrüN/VerT d’OreiLLe

Exhibition & Performance

Curated by Aline Lenzhofer, presented by philomena+ in cooperation with Salam Music

The artist, composer and performer Myriam el Haïk combines music and visual art in her work. Starting from minimalist, repetitive compositions, she develops her own systems of notation and signs that translate musical structures into visual forms. Writing and playing both occupy a central role in her practice. By deliberately subverting conventions, the artist creates her own rules and systems. Her performance installation OHrGrüN / VerT d’OreiLLe, presented within the multi-part exhibition project Against the Playbook, curated by Aline Lenzhofer, reflects this approach.

Taking its point of departure from the French expression ver d’oreille (“earworm”), the performance engages with words and sounds, mistranslations and their poetic potential to generate new meanings and imagined worlds. The result is a live collage of spoken word, invented language, music, images and performative actions.

Myriam el Haïk

Myriam El Haïk (born 1973 in Rabat) is a Franco-Moroccan artist, composer, and performer. She lives and works in Berlin and Rabat.

Her artistic language is based on the repetition and combination of simple signs, patterns, and actions, and is equally informed by Moroccan and European cultural influences. At the core of her practice lies the connection between music and visual art. Drawing on her own minimalist, repetitive compositions, El Haïk develops systems of notation and drawing that translate musical structures into visual forms.

Her works can be understood as visual transcriptions of musical processes and take shape in drawings, installations, videos, and performance formats. These highly rhythmical forms of expression are both reduced and complex, conceived across media and internally coherent. Writing and play play a central role in her work: through the conscious deconstruction and subversion of conventions, the artist creates her own rules and systems.

Myriam El Haïk has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and Morocco and has taken part in international fairs and festivals. Her performances have brought her, among other places, to Paris, London, Montreal, and New York.

myriamelhaik.org