Leila Benyounes — Work in Progress, An Archive of Becoming

The wall is alive with sketches, fragments, and torn pages pinned into place like evidence of a restless mind. Work in Progress is not an exhibition. It is an archive of becoming, where the unfinished holds as much beauty as the complete. Moroccan-French artist Leila Benyounes invites the viewer to witness her process, not the polished ending. These moments are tender, imperfect, and necessary. They remind us that creation is not about perfection. It is about the courage to leave a trace of what is still forming. Each fragment serves as a record of vulnerability, a testament that to be unfinished is also to be alive. The work challenges the notion that value only exists at completion, asking us to find resonance in the draft, the sketch, the half-built. What lingers is the intimacy of seeing thought before it hardens into product. In doing so, Benyounes reframes failure as progress, process as art, and becoming as its own destination.