Myriam El Haïk (1973, Rabat, Morocco) is a French-Moroccan artist, composer and performer. Her artistic language is based on simple signs, patterns, or actions. The links between music and visual art take center stage in her work. She develops systems of visual notations, transposing her repetitive and minimalist musical compositions into drawings, performances, videos, installations, sculptures, and even furniture and games.
Across all her different mediums, El Haïk plays a never-ending game with and within the limits set by the rules she invents-be it the rules of her musical compositions, her systems of notation, her minimalist abstract visual vocabulary, or back to her starting point, the rules of writing. In her peculiar way, she is pushing and pursuing her inventions across the borders of the various mediums she uses. She plays with colors, patterns, lines, structures, and ultimately with the notion of time, which is central in all her work. Over her career, a body of work has unfolded that is as versatile and complex as it is minimalist and coherent.
In Vienna Myriam El Haïk presents her performance-installation piece OHrGrüN/VerT d‘OreiLLe as part of the Salam Music Festival.
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