Meriem Bennani’s video installation, Party on the Caps, now on view at CLEARING gallery in Bushwick, evokes a genre that I don’t know quite how to describe. “Dystopian art mockumentary” gets close, ...
Two lizards are discussing the lockdown. “In a fucked up way, I’m loving this,” says one. The other replies: “That is such a quarantine week one thing to say.” The pair gazes on as various fauna play ...
In Bouchra, 3D animated anthropomorphic animals may populate the world, but the intricacies of their lives are unmistakably human. This approach is par for the course for the film’s co-directors, the ...
Meriem Bennani, “Party on the CAPS” (2018-2019), video installation, 00:30:00 (all images courtesy the artist) Humanoid alligators and lizards, and individuals coping with a syndrome called “plastic ...
Meriem Bennani has an eye and an ear for mischief. The Moroccan-born, New York-based artist’s body of work surfs across video, sculpture, multimedia installation, drawing, and Instagram. Surreally ...
TIMOTHY SCHENCK, Courtesy of artist, the High Line, and Audemars Piguet There’s no shortage of incredible things to see—including, if you’re lucky, the inside of some nearby apartments—walking the ...
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. It was a Saturday night in early 2018. Meriem Abella was sitting on her couch in Lansing, Michigan, swiping through Tinder, through ...