Born in Casablanca in 1992, Mehdi Ouahmane lives and works in Marrakech, Morocco. Mehdi graduated from the Art’com Sup Art and Design School in Casablanca (2013) and the National Institute of Fine Arts Tétouan (2019).

Mehdi Ouahmane encounters wandering NPCs (non-player characters) in areas scarred by mythical cataclysms. From these unexpected interactions, ambiguous—sometimes boring dialogues commence, to which Mehdi replies strangely with drawing, sculpture, collage, and 2D digital montage.

While floods, gas explosions, and earthquakes happen nearby, Mehdi would barricade himself with video games and animés. A delusional behavior; an adolescent attitude, that he adopts to find a certain logic to all the Confusion, into digital and fairy-like realms. As a form of escapism, Mehdi draws whimsical rooms where inner myths coat public/unspoken narratives and eco-catastrophes. These rooms function as prisms of contemplation, where NPCs, fragmented dialogues, and visual mosaics unfold, allowing us to grasp the Confusion through different perspectives and temporalities.

Mehdi has taken part in residencies at Misk Art Institute in Riyadh (2023), the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2023), and La Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille (2022). He has exhibited his work at Art Explora Festival in Tangiers (2024). He has won the Prince Claus Seed Awards (2021).

For 3oubour, Mehdi is inspired by the mythological animal-shaped taps found in the fountains of Fez. By imagining and visualizing a fictional world around them, through sculpture, text, and digital collage, he plans to recontextualize these mythological figures in a contemporary setting, creating a bridge between past and present, myth and reality.