Who Is She
Marya Semlali was born on 24.09.1994 in Taza, in the northeast of Morocco, between the Rif Mountains and the Middle Atlas. Her imagination was shaped early by nature, long before art became her language. Trained as a dentist, creation gradually imposed itself as a parallel practice. Her artistic journey began during the first lockdown, through the creation of ephemeral works designed to disappear. This deliberate impermanence was a quiet response to uncertainty—if the pandemic would end, so would the artworks. Nothing lasts forever, and within that idea, she found comfort.
The anesthesia carpule marked a turning point in her practice. Initially a simple medical tool, it became a central material and symbol. Its transparency, precision, and dual role—relief and restraint—reshaped her perception. She began collecting used carpules, transforming them into compositions where faces, emotions, and narratives emerged. What was once waste became structure, memory, and possibility. Art functions as an intimate dialogue with the world—both refuge and therapy. Today, Marya Semlali continues to explore transformation through discarded materials, giving new life to overlooked objects. The carpule remains at the core of her work: a silent witness, a building block, and a language through which she questions impermanence, care, and consciousness.
