NG announces the first Moroccan exhibition of Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS Trilogy.
Sharing my work in my home, in the country that it was made after and for, will feel like
I’m showing for the first time. I’m so happy and nervous. — Meriem Bennani.
NG is excited to announce its first exhibition, Life on the CAPS Trilogy by Meriem Bennani, which will be on view in Essaouira, Morocco, from December 13th, 2025 to February 8th, 2026. It will be the artist’s first exhibition in her home country.
Life on the CAPS (2018–22) is a compelling film trilogy encompassing Party on the CAPS (2018–19), Guided Tour of a Spill (CAPS Interlude) (2021), and Life on the CAPS (2022). The narrative unfolds on a fictional island floating in the mid‑Atlantic, known as the CAPS—short for “capsule.” In this imaginative dystopian world, teleportation has replaced traditional air travel. Migrants attempting illegal teleports are intercepted and detained on the island, eventually forming a makeshift society with its own vibrant hybrid culture, rituals, and resistance movements in opposition to the troops that patrol the CAPS.
Bennani’s playful aesthetic defies traditional genres, merging live-action footage, computer-generated animation, and stylistic elements from reality TV, music videos, documentary, and phone-camera aesthetics. Her videos on contemporary realities make serious themes much more approachable and compelling.
The trilogy deftly pivots between the intimate (personal stories) and the expansive (surveillance, diaspora), highlighting themes of displacement, identity, and the tension between individual experience and collective life.
Life on the CAPS has traveled internationally to the following venues : Renaissance Society (2022), Nottingham Contemporary (2022), The Power Plant (2022), Fondation Kamel Lazaar (2023), Art Gallery of New South Wales (2023). The series is part of renowned collections such as MoMA, the Guggenheim, Art Gallery of South Wales, Qatar Museums, Julia Stoschek Collection, Hartwig Art Foundation, the Vega Foundation.
Meriem Bennani (b. 1988 in Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in New York. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations, composed with a subtle agility to question contemporary society, its fractured systems, individual identity, and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies. Meriem Bennani’s work is on view at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris from October 22nd, 2025, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions in the past at the Fondazione Prada, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fondation Louis Vuitton, MoMA PS1, among others.
Source: NG Press Release
