Soukaina Joual expands her practice by exploring fabric dyeing techniques and incorporating them into her ongoing project, Raw Body. This series explores the complexity of the human form, particularly the deformed female body. Using embroidery and textile-based techniques, Raw Body presents the female body as a subject of both fragility and disorder, challenging traditional representations of nudity and embodiment.

In this phase of the project, Soukaina deepens her engagement with materiality by incorporating natural and experimental dyeing methods. The residency is an opportunity for her to research, test and develop new techniques for dyeing, colouring and texturing fabrics to expand the layered and textural aspects of her work. She aims to further explore the possibilities of expressive fabric manipulation to evoke vulnerability, fragmentation and transformation in dyed textiles, as well as exploring skin tones by experimenting with different shades and tones.

Soukaina Joual is a Moroccan multi-disciplinary artist born in 1990, graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan, Morocco in 2011. Her various works showcase an interest in how one’s body can translate and reflect various tensions, dynamics and differences. She usually focuses on the body from different perspectives: how it changes, its’ interaction with personal identity, and how it can also become a site to engage in important ideological debates. Joual has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, including Aussen und Innen at Gallery Imke Valentien in Stuttgart, Germany, Comme le monde, un univers de corps re-articulés at L'appartement 22 in Rabat, Morocco, curated by Abdellah Karroum with assistant curator Sanaa Zaghoud, and Em/body/ies يـ/جسد/ون at Kulte Art Gallery in Rabat, Morocco. She as also contributed to various projects in esteemed institutions and spaces across the world.