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Sabrina Charehbili

Sabrina Charehbili

*Inherited Presence*

*Inherited Presence* explores the shifting relationship between body, landscape, and perception. Moving between figuration and abstraction, the series follows moments where figures dissolve, transform, and re-emerge through interaction with movement, fabric, light, and environment.

Conceptual

About Artist

Sabrina Charehbili

Sabrina Charehbili is a Dutch-Moroccan photographer and visual artist whose work explores the shifting relationship between body, landscape, memory, and transformation. Moving fluidly between figuration and abstraction, her practice investigates how presence can dissolve, fragment, and re-emerge through interactions with natural elements such as light, water, fabric, wind, and terrain. Through photography and moving image, she creates immersive visual spaces where identity is understood not as fixed, but as something continuously changing and relational. Her work developed from a personal search for connection to her cultural roots and a desire to navigate the distance between language, place, and belonging. This process led her to work intuitively within landscapes in Morocco and later in other environments where the body and surroundings begin to merge. Rather than constructing rigid compositions, Charehbili works responsively on location, allowing movement, material interactions, and environmental forces to actively shape the image. This openness to unpredictability forms a central aspect of her artistic process. In her ongoing project *Inherited Presence*, figures often appear in transitional states — partially concealed, dissolving into fabric, fragmented by water, or absorbed into the landscape itself. The work intentionally resists fixed narratives and instead creates fluid visual experiences that move between visibility and disappearance, stillness and motion, intimacy and abstraction. In more recent works, water has become an increasingly important element within the practice, introducing reflection, distortion, and instability into the image. Through this, the work shifts further away from representation and toward sensory and emotional forms of perception. Alongside photography, Charehbili has begun integrating moving image into her practice. Video allows the themes of transformation and instability to extend beyond the still frame, introducing rhythm, duration, and bodily movement as active components within the work. Her films function as poetic extensions of the photographic series, deepening the relationship between image, atmosphere, and perception. Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, festivals, and photography platforms. In 2026, her work was presented at the Valencia Photo Festival as part of the Moroccan delegation and cultural exchange program between Morocco and Spain, where the exhibition remains on view during the ongoing festival program. In 2025, she presented work during Rencontres d’Arles in France, participated in Cross Lens Exhibition in Marrakech, and was featured in the NNC Challenge exhibition in London. Her work has received recognition from several international photography platforms and awards, including LensCulture Editor’s Pick, The Independent Photographer (Finalist, People Photography Award), Booooooom Shortlist, All About Photo Shortlist, Athens Photo Festival Shortlist, Bruxelles Special Mention Award, and the DUPHO SO Student Award. Her work has also been featured by LensCulture, Booooooom, and The Independent Photographer, among others. She graduated from the Fotoacademie in the Netherlands and has exhibited work at venues and festivals including Unseen Photo Fair, Galerie Helder (Emergo and Different Corners), Capital C Amsterdam, Theater De Lieve Vrouw, Rietveldpaviljoen Amersfoort, Rencontres Photographiques de Marrakech, Cross Lens Amsterdam, and Valencia Photo Festival. Beyond exhibition-making, Charehbili’s practice increasingly expands toward installation, moving image, and spatial presentation. Through large-scale prints, layered materials, and immersive atmospheres, she constructs environments where viewers are invited into spaces of uncertainty, transformation, and reflection. Her work continues to evolve across photography, video, and installation while remaining rooted in questions of perception, presence, memory, and the unstable boundaries between body and environment.

Sabrina Charehbili

Photographic Areas of Focus

Abstract, Fashion & Beauty, Landscapes, Portrait

Location

Netherlands

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