“The works of the artist with Moroccan roots are abstract, meaning only color and form. Only color and form? The titles of her paintings tell a different story. They speak of trees, wind, light, air, and rivers. All her paintings express movement, the overlapping and interpenetration of surfaces and colors. Nothing stands still, as the philosopher Heraclitus already said around 500 BC: ‘Everything flows.’ Flow always also means change, and change often generates fear. But not in the paintings of Touria Alaoui. She finds beauty in dissolution, in the uncertain and the indeterminate. … To surrender to the paintings of Touria Alaoui means to let oneself fall and be carried, to tolerate no fixation, and to enjoy freedom.”
Martin Ganzkow, excerpt from: The Beauty of Dissolution, the Uncertain and the Indeterminate, April 1, 2023