Nabil Aniss (b. 1990, Meknès, Morocco) is a Moroccan artist working with moving images currently based in Brussels. Aniss employs a combination of moving images and monologues to examine the intricate interconnections between political institutions, diasporic bodies, affect, and intimacy. He delves into the role of political institutions in both capturing affect and mutilating bodies, while elucidating the violence inflicted upon diasporic bodies by political, economic, and social structures. 

He explores suffering and self-mutilation as a ritual praxis of liberation and resistance for diasporic bodies, particularly immigrant workers from the Global South. 

For such, Aniss uses mutilated, tired, and suffering figures and shapes as material  from the sacrificial world of the Gnawa* of Morocco. He understands the Gnawa community's collective suffering and self-mutilation as a profound act of defiance against the confines of neoliberal institutional violence and domination; as a declaration, that change begins at the precipice of what connects you to the structures of domination: the body. Each self-inflicted wound serves as a symbolic breach, tearing down the barriers that confine the individual and marking the beginning of a transformative journey against the logic of capitalism, challenging the commodification of human life and the erosion of collective being through political gestures.

*Moroccan brotherhood of the diaspora of West African descendants of slaves