lilia ben salah
Mohamed Lekleti , Morocco
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"Poussières d'exil"
Mohamed Lekleti, Le souffle des origines, 2026 Technique mixte sur papier marouflé sur bois, 120 x 175 cm, © Mohamed Lekleti / ADAGP, Paris Courtesy of the artist and Galerie lilia ben salah
Carte blanche to Éric Mangion
lilia ben salah gallery presents “Poussières d’exil”, a solo exhibition by Mohamed Lekleti, curated by Eric Mangion, from March 19 to May 31, 2026.
Mohamed Lekleti’s work is striking for its graphic dexterity, its sensitive mastery of painting, its ability to occupy space, and its use of objects. His iconographic vocabulary gradually develops and diversifies. He addresses subjects as crucial as domination, power, and the blindness of our gaze, depicting, like a psychoanalyst, our constant duality, our vagueness, our traumas, and our collective nightmares. Everything seems to appear in a state of suspension, as if all his drawings were held in a kind of weightlessness, made of fragility and precariousness, in which neither men nor women, nor animals nor objects touch the ground.
For Mohamed Lekleti, the celestial world merges with the earthly world; the eternal and the factual meet, the timeless and the instant, the past and the present become one.
— Excerpt from the exhibition text, by Eric Mangion, curator of the exhibition
Solo show of Mohamed Lekleti.
From March 19 to May 2026
The gallery
lilia ben salah gallery is committed to working alongside artists, both emerging and established, whose assertive and independent practices actively contribute to the dynamics of cultural hybridization that are essential to the development of societies. Through its programming, the gallery strives to support artists and collaborate closely with them, to invite curators to conceive new projects, and to strengthen relationships with institutional partners while also engaging in off-site initiatives and international art fairs. Furthermore, the gallery aims to offer a broader reading of recent art history by bringing contemporary creation into dialogue with the major contributions of historical artists originating from Africa and the Middle and Near East, thereby highlighting the continuity, richness, and diversity of these artistic conversations beyond geographic boundaries.
Located in the Matignon district of Paris, the gallery is situated within a key context for an international audience of collectors and art institutions.
Gallery artists
Amal Abdenour (1931-2020), Fela Kefi-Leroux, Emma Ben Aziza (1997), Mahjoub Ben Bella (1946-2020), Zoulikha Bouabdellah (1977), Amel Bennys (1970), Marie Chamant (1944), Inji Efflatoun (1924-1989), Fakhri El Ghezal (1981), Farah Khelil (1980), Georges Koskas (1926-2013), Mohamed Lekleti (1967), Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998), Katayoun Rouhi (1967), Chaïbia Talal (1929-2004), Malaika Temba (1996)
