Born in Paris in 1970 to an American mother and an Algerian father, Aurele Andrews Benmejdoub now lives in Tangier. After his baccalaureate, he studied public law and clinical psychology and psychopathology, before working as an educator and becoming involved in child welfare and a career at the Bobigny court. But another thirst vibrates within him. A thirst for the world and for worlds, which he quenched in his travels, notebook and lens at his fingertips, renaming the world according to other words, fixing its tremors, its jolts, its breaks, its beauty to the test of his gaze offered as a tear open to all cracks. From a troubling aesthetic universe, Aurele questions the real in art to better divert and blur the clichés, and constantly question the status of the work of art and the artist.
His works have been presented in Morocco and abroad in many institutions and events of contemporary art among which: Off Biennial of Marrakech-Morocco (2014), ONA Foundation Rabat-Morocco (2014), Akkaboun Palace, Tangier-Morocco (2014), Fondation CDG, Rabat-Morocco (2014). Loft gallery Tangier-Morocco (2015). Gallery Rastoll, Paris-France (2016). Gallery 127, Marrakech-Morocco (2016) MCC Gallery Marrakech (2018) Les Insolites Tangier (2018) etc. His work is included in several major collections such as the ONA Foundation and the Fondation Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion-Maroc, the Yannick and Ben Jakober Foundation, the Museum of Photography of St. Louis in Senegal (MUPHO) and various private collections in France, the United States, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Japan and Morocco.