Born in El Ksiba, Morocco in  1967 and died in 2024 , Mohamed El baz graduated from the l'Ecole Régionale d'Art  (Regional School of  Fine Art) Dunkirk in 1989. In 1992, he obtained  a DNSEP (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique, .diploma in visual arts)  from the ENSA ( École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy) in Cergy. He also took classes at IHEAP in  Paris (Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques (1988-1994), founded in 1985 by Pontus Hulten with Daniel Buren and Sarkis. Mohamed El baz lives and works in Casablanca , Morocco and Lille, France .

 

Since 1993, Mohamed El baz has been creating  a work entitled  "Bricoler l’incurable"( Mending the incurable).   His leitmotiv provides  him  with an ongoing, never ending and always controversial  installations; as components or "details"  find a place and adapt to each new concept .

 

His work has three orientations through which Mohamed El baz crosses boundaries and categories : daily , autobiographical and playful ; the work itself becomes mobile and turns into a different story. Mohamed El baz questions the notions of borders and territories and all that works to erect barriers between people .