About Me
My studio practice turns inward, rooting straight down into the dirt. Moving past the spontaneous, I focus entirely on pure, structural presence—grounding forces, endurance, and the heavy vibration remaining in a space after stripping away the nonessential noise.
Each canvas stands firm, marking a deliberate departure from anything I’ve exhibited or published before.
Kept entirely private, these paintings await their first physical debut inside the stone vaults of Galerie du Bastion Borj Bab Marrakech—a 19th-century UNESCO bastion in Essaouira, Morocco.
Vernissage: July 23, 2026
The exhibition runs through August 10.
Biography
Ahu, a multi-disciplinary artist and writer currently based in Essaouira, Morocco, possesses a career spanning decades and continents. Arriving in New York in 1975, she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1977. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, she performed extensively in New York theatre and commanded stages as a musician, touring internationally in South America and opening for icons like Iggy Pop. During her twelve years in New York City, she also starred in the cult classic film Basket Case, since inducted into MoMA’s permanent film library.
Her creative evolution spans large-scale California sculpture, international performance, and two published poetry collections, Take It In and abstract romance. Today, her visual arts practice focuses entirely on intense, structural painting. Her works reside in private collections across Sweden, France, Morocco, and the United States, following recent exhibitions in Stockholm, Casablanca, and Essaouira.
