Laila Chaoui

My practice is inspired by glitch, collapse, and decadence. Materially to I explore the intersections between data, technology, organic matter, and decay — investigating what emerges when structures glitch, rot, or mutate into new forms. 

Decay, for me, is not an end but a generative force — a powerful transformation that makes hidden systems visible and important, 

Cross-contamination is a method I apply across my work: forcing the organic and digital into unstable collisions,the sacred and the profane, life and death, searching for the infections and the impurities.

This practice is informed by my research, where I investigate glitch practices as tools for disruption and decolonization from opressive institutions.I am drawn to the glitch, not to fix it but to hear what it screams.

Through my research and practice, I recognize that glitching — the ability to resist, to corrupt, to leak outside of systems and the premises of liberation are often reserved for privileged bodies and spaces. True collapse is not equally accessible.

Thus, my work is shaped by a tension: the desire to break free from systems of control, and the awareness that even acts of disruption are entangled in power structures.

The tension is that glitches, breakdowns, and decay offer the possibility of resistance — but only if there is awareness to the privilege that it requires to glitch.

In a world that worships clarity and algorithmic gazes, I search for the impure and wrecked noise artifacts.

Expo list:

“carte blanche” at B93 ,Enschede,Netherlands (2022)

“Matters of Life and Death”at Aki ArtEZ , Enschede,Netherlands (2023)

“Monocolor” at Chateu Gallery, Budapest,Hungary (2024)

“Through our eyes” Black Brick Underground, Enschede, Netherlands (2025)

Prize for “Reality Sandwich” video contest (2025)

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