Mouad Manar is a Moroccan visual artist based in Marseille, working across illustration, mural painting, and motion design. His practice explores transitional spaces — between presence and absence, the intimate and the symbolic — through a refined visual language rooted in gesture, silence, and ritual.

Formally trained in graphic design, Manar has developed a multidisciplinary approach that integrates narrative, composition, and movement. He has taken part in numerous festivals and residencies since 2017, including SbaghaBagha, Jidar, Khaliya, and Skefkef, contributing both as an illustrator and muralist within Morocco’s vibrant independent scene and integrated French scene from ZikZac festival.

Alongside his artistic work, he is also active in cultural mediation. He holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Mediation of the Arts and currently collaborates as a mediator for the Rencontres du 9e Art, the comics festival of Aix-en-Provence.

Whether in editorial drawings or large-scale public artworks, his images are acts of attention: to bodies, to memory, to what escapes the spoken word. Each piece is conceived as a threshold — not just aesthetic, but emotional and cultural.