Born in 1974, Touria El Glaoui is the daughter of the great Moroccan painter Hassan El Glaoui and granddaughter of the former pasha of Marrakech, Thami El Mezouari El Glaoui. Touria is the founder and director of the international fair for contemporary African art 1-54 (one continent, fifty-four countries), created in 2013 in London, before also establishing annual events in New York, Marrakech and, for the first time this year, in Paris.