Hajar HAJJAMI / HADJAMI
Born in 1987 in Tangier, Morocco, Hajar lives and works between Paris and her Mediterranean imaginaries.
Trained as a jurist and holding a PhD in International Relations, she works as an interculturalist. Her path moves across languages, cultures, collective narratives, and the friction zones between identity, memory, freedom, and belonging. This constant relationship with otherness deeply nourishes her artistic practice.
She began with writing in 2003. In 2015, she published her first poetry collection, La guerrière de l’amour, followed in 2016 by Le carnet de mes amours insensés and Le portrait d’une âme en transe, three books written in her youth. Poetry was her first territory of expression: a space of intensity, unveiling, and inner resistance.
Self-taught and fascinated by the sensitive forms of language, she gradually turned to painting when words were no longer enough to contain what needed to emerge. Matter, color, and gesture then became an extension of writing, but also a liberation from its constraints. Each pictorial work is therefore associated with a poem written by the artist herself, as though image and text were two voices of the same inner crossing.
Coming from a conservative environment, marked by a rigid relationship to rules, social expectations, and assigned norms, Hajar built her artistic path as a movement of emancipation. For her, emancipation did not only mean living at the opposite end of what was expected of her; it also meant transforming the gaze of those who had learned to expect.
It is within this tension between inheritance and rupture that she understood the power of artistic expression. If speech, gesture, poetry, and painting had been able to shift boundaries within an environment deeply attached to established codes, then art could become a broader lever: not only to free oneself, but also to fracture certainties, open spaces for dialogue, and contribute to changing mindsets.
Her pictorial practice is built around abstract figures, born from emotions, inner tensions, and silent revolutions. Through them, she explores the relationships between vulnerability and power, intimate memory and cultural heritage, discipline and overflow. Each work becomes a space of experimentation where error is no longer a fault, but a trace; where gesture no longer obeys norms, but an inner necessity.
Through her painting and poems, Hajar pursues a research into freedom: that of the body, the gaze, identity, and speech when they leave imposed frameworks and become form. Her work is rooted in an intuitive and contemporary approach, at the crossroads of poetry, emotional abstraction, and a reflection on multiple belongings.
