Meriem Bennani (°1988 in Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations shown at the Whitney Biennale, MoMA PS1, the Guggenheim museum, Art Dubai, the Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Public Art Fund, and Fondazione Prada in Milan. Her films have been shown at the New York Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Metrograph in New York and on the Criterion Channel.
Benanni and Barki's animated series, 2 Lizards, premiered on Instagram during Spring 2020 and was described by The New York Times as “hypnotic... deploying a blend of documentary structure and animation surrealism... both poignantly grounded in actual events and also soothingly fantastical” and its animated protagonists “art stars” (Jon Caramanica, April 2020). The series was recently added to the permanent collection of the MoMA and the Whitney Museum.