Born in Casablanca, Souad is a visual artist and researcher who lives between Strasbourg and Fez. Her parents are originally from the Moulay Boutcha Khammar region. Her work explores individual and collective memory through archives, narratives and materials, questioning the silences and absences of history. For the past five years, she has been exploring family memory through research and interventions in the region.
She has participated in several exhibitions, notably at the Dakar Biennale. Recently, her works have been acquired by the MUCEM. Her projects combine fieldwork, testimonials and immersive installations in order to re-inscribe erased memories in public and cultural spaces. Deeply rooted in Morocco, she develops projects related to landscapes, territories and local communities, while maintaining a dialogue with the international art scene.

Eléonore Piret El Maysour

Based between Brussels and Morocco, Éléonore Piret is a visual artist that develops a practice around material memory, ruins and reconstruction. She combines experimental photography, critical writing, philosophy, installation and, more recently, sound.
In a project exploring the transformation of the former Citroën factory into a museum, she reveals the fragility and persistence of materials collected on the margins of the construction site. In a recent residency in Japan, she worked with natural and industrial fragments washed up on Hiroshima’s shores, questioning how to build through ecological gestures and art in a context of traumatic memory. Lately, her practice has been exploring the dialogue between Moroccan spiritual rituals and the structures of contemporary art institutions, which are often ethnocentric.

Born in Mamers, Bertrand is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in Strasbourg. In addition to his regular practice, he has been involved for more than 30 years in the care of patients from other cultures and research in the intercultural field. His work has led him to collaborate with colleagues from other countries and cultures. Amongst other projects, he has published ‘Désirs et sexualités’ (Desires and Sexualities) in collaboration with Jalil Bennani, a Moroccan psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His research on beliefs aims to enrich psychotherapeutic listening by taking into account the deconstruction of Western categories that oppose reason and beliefs, but also nature and culture, human and non-human. His interest in Jean l-Manzel, a project rooted in an ecological, intercultural and communalist perspective, is therefore intrinsically linked to his practice and theoretical research.

Anya is a medical student and activist involved in the Syndicat alternative Etudiante Strasbourg (@ae_strasbourg). Anya has always been interested in ecological, social and feminist struggles, and is currently working on the effects of tear gas on health. As a pianist, she performs live gigs in Strasbourg to create intergenerational links. She is interested in a vision of medical practices that transcends cultures, which she experienced during an internship in traditional medicine in Hanoi, where she learned the language.

Tom, based in Strasbourg, has completed his studies in economics and is now turning his attention to manual and sustainable practices in cabinetmaking. Very involved in ecological and humanitarian projects, he led a project to build a school in the village of Gape Tsikale in Togo, a project he spearheaded and organised for three years.
Tom followed Jnan l-Manzel throughout the planting period in October 2025, motivated by his desire to discover Moroccan culture and to learn and pass on knowledge.

Samuel was born in Sélestat and is currently a medical student. He shares a holistic view of medical practice, in which ecology needs to be included. He is sensitive to the cultural and linguistic context in the caregiver-patient interaction. He completed an internship in traditional medicine in Vietnam, where he was able to experience medicine through a non-Western lens. He joined the Jnan l-Manzel project in order to make a concrete contribution to this ecological adventure.

Sana is of Moroccan and Algerian heritage. She was born in Strasbourg and is currently studying for a master's degree in comparative literature in Paris. She has worked on writing about individuals in times of war, particularly in the context of the Algerian War and anti-colonial and anti- fascist struggles. Her practice in comparative literature is motivated by a desire to broaden her literary and, de facto, her geographical, cultural and linguistic horizons. She wishes to break free from dominating boundaries.
Sana cultivates her connection to her family and cultural heritage through her research and her presence in Tangier in particular. Through the Jnan-l-Manzel project, she is reactivating her attachment to the land and her ecological and community concerns.

Marjory was born in Strasbourg to Angolan and Congolese parents. Her commitment to defending rights and her multicultural background led her to take an interest in comparative and international law. She is currently studying comparative private law in Lyon. She is involved in social and environmental causes through various associations. Marjory is particularly interested in intellectual property issues and the preservation of traditional knowledge, and is working on this topic as part of her dissertation. Her sensitivity and attention to the transmission of knowledge led her to join the Jnan l-Manzel project. Through this project, she has returned to observing traditional and ancestral practices related to ecology and imagining new ways to protect and promote these territories.

Born in Saint-Cyr l'Ecole in the Yvelines, Yann is French German. After studying animated film, he turned to comic books and signed with the publisher Casterman. Seeking to transcribe the organic aspect of nature in his drawings, Yann draws inspiration from reality, particularly the Mediterranean territories, for his current comic book, Joie. He also teaches animated film at the Atelier de Sèvres and Gobelins Paris, where he seeks to pass on the tools and knowledge that will enable his students to flourish in their artistic practices. Through this journey and exchanges with local residents, he hopes to contribute to a way of thinking about and practising drawing and animation that is closer to the environment and grounded realities.

Born in Strasbourg, Lucile is an animated film director and a graduate of Gobelins Paris. Involved in social struggles from an early age, she co- founded a feminist collective in high school and was an illustrator for the independent anti-capitalist newspaper Le Chiffon. Her involvement in associations led her to lead writing workshops with people with physical and mental disabilities. Enriched by these experiences, she regularly renews this openness to otherness.
In her artistic work, Lucile often takes us on a journey into poetic and dreamlike worlds, where nature plays an important role. Landscapes become a mirror of her characters' inner lives. Having grown up in a rural environment, ecological issues are essential to her. Jnan l-Manzel is an opportunity to discover new natural and human spaces.

Juliette is a visual artist based in London, where she develops an interdisciplinary practice focused primarily on sculptural assemblages, installations and images. Juliette's interdisciplinary approach takes the form of an investigation in which action, research and staging intertwine in order to better understand the tensions and relationships between artefacts and people, revealing what negotiates and frames individual and collective experiences as well as the specific ontologies of objects. The installations and assemblages produced are presented as mnemonic investigations revealing the language and sign systems through which we experience and describe the world. Often working in situ, her practice is realised in response to a place, fictional or real, or in relation to the idea of ‘places’, their genius loci. Her interest in Jnan-l-Manzel stems from a desire to participate in a community and collective project that crosses several disciplines and allows her to forge links and share knowledge and ways of life with all those involved and encountered through the project.