Litotes brings together a group of recent paintings by Sanae Arraqas, developed during her residency at UM6P in Benguerir, and presented at MCC Gallery from January 16, 2026. The intimate space of the bedroom becomes the site of a profound pictorial experience. Through this new body of work, the artist pursues a rigorous painterly investigation, driven by a meticulous attention to interior spaces, captured throughout her travels. Both familiar and transient, these rooms become true visual laboratories where the artist’s deep, almost organic relationship with painting is continually re-enacted. Rather than a biographical unveiling, this work engages in an exploration of the medium itself — its tensions, silences, and possibilities.

Approached with controlled spontaneity, the series unfolds without premeditation or staging. Guided by instinct, the pictorial gesture becomes a direct dialogue with the canvas, where light, shadow, perspective, and color intertwine in an ongoing search for the limits of painting.

Each brushstroke carries a palpable energy, bringing forth inner landscapes, real or imagined, that assert themselves as images of a tangible, sensitive reality. Here, desire is above all painterly: painting stands as the central subject, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in its surface, nuances, and rhythms.

A painterly litotes thus offers an experience of contemplation, where time seems suspended and where, beyond words, painting conveys a raw emotion and a singular state of being.