M'barek Bouhchichi was born in Akka in 1975.
M'barek Bouhchichi holds a bachelor's degree in plastic arts, and has been teaching art since the mid-1990s in Tiznit and now in Tahannaout (Morocco).
The artist's work is based on the representation and perception of the black body in Moroccan society. The body is a multi-faceted theme in M'barek Bouhchichi's work. Molded, sculpted, drawn and painted, it is highlighted through a kaleidoscope of signs, fragments (almost votive) and images that reveal the multiple or the fragmented. Hands, heads, faces and imprints become metaphors, doubles - even doubles - of invisible bodies struggling to become one. They refer to the fragmentation of the human body and the splintering of perception, placing the onus on the viewer to reconstitute the many imaginary and symbolic meanings of the splintered body image, or to get lost in the opacity of such fragmentation.
This plastic work on the body is thus open to social and political thought, within which notions of identity, corporeality, difference and otherness are explored. Among the questions that have guided M'barek Bouhchichi's recent plastic research: how has the representation of the black body in the visual and plastic arts, literature, poetry and music, been conditioned by approaches defined on the basis of race and sexuality, as well as the question of the gaze?
His work has been included in renowned collections including the Musée National d'Art Moderne du Centre Georges Pompidou (France), the Musée d'Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (Morocco), the American Friends of the Arts in North Africa Foundation (USA), the Fondation CDG (Morocco), the Ministère des Finances (Morocco), Diana Holding (Morocco), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear (Spain), the CALOSA Foundation (Mexico) and the Kells Art Collection (Spain).
M'barek Bouhchichi lives and works in Tahannaout, Morocco.