Bouchra Khalili is a Moroccan-born (1975, Casablanca) and Vienna-based artist. She studied Film History at Sorbonne Nouvelle and Visual Arts at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris. Encompassing film, video, installation, photography, printmaking, and publishing, Khalili's practice explores imperial and colonial continuums as epitomized by contemporary forced illegal migrations and the politics of memory of anti-colonial struggles and international solidarity. At the intersection of history and micro-narratives, her work combines documentary strategies and conceptual practice to investigate questions of self-representation, autonomous agency, and forms of resistance of suppressed communities. Deeply informed by the legacy of post-independence avant-gardes and the vernacular traditions of her native Morocco, Khalili's approach combine performative strategies of storytelling and the old tradition of Northern Africa storytelling to develop civic platforms for first person accounts eventually forming collective stories of resistance and emancipation. Khalili's work has been subject to numerous solo exhibitions, such as at Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Museum Folkwang (Essen), Jeu de Paume (Paris), MAXXI Museum (Roma), Museum of Modern Art (New York). She also participated to several international exhibitions such as at the 12th Bamako Biennial, BienalSur (Buenos Aires), Documenta 14th Kassel, 55th Venice Biennale, among others. As a cultural activist, she’s a co-founder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger, Northern Morocco's first cultural center dedicated to the preservation and promotion of film culture in the region.