Chaïbia Talal (Chtouka, 1929–Casablanca, 2004) was a self-taught artist whose path defied social and artistic norms. At thirteen, she was forced to marry a much older man. Not long after, she had a son and lost her husband. Working as a domestic worker, she ensured her child received a formal education, while she herself remained illiterate. She began painting in the 1960s after dreaming that brushes and paint were offered to her. Her work, linked to art brut and feminine imagination, draws on memories of rural childhood. Initially dismissed by the Moroccan art scene, she later gained international recognition, with exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and the Venice Biennale (1980).