Zakaria Ait Wakrim

Zakaria Wakrim, born in 1988, lives and works between Spain and Morocco. His early photoworks were quite experimental, willing to explore perceptual human boundaries using all sort of experimental means. After being catalogued as one of the “ Emerging Artists “ in his homeland, he started applying his experimental means to create a deep reflexion around the concepts of Change and Identity. The result consists in layers of visual stories that have a narrative and a conceptual side. His visual research is constant; he believes that the photographic language is organic.
His photo series are willing to occupy the narrative field, stories that give sense to local identity. The fast sense of change that is happening in North Africa blurs the frontiers between the old and the new. The intersection is hard to state as the old is easily forgotten and scavenged by the new. Documenting the sense of change, becomes a way to understand it better, in order to deal with identity as a starting point for culture.

-Group exhibition, Maroc Pluriel, 2010. Rabat.
-Group exhibition Journées du Patrimoine, collectif Soora en 2013. Synagogue de Casablanca.
-Group exhibition, Off de la Biennale de Marrakech , collectif Soora en 2014. Marrakech.
-Group exhibition,” Emerge & See “, collectif Soora en 2014. Yakin&Boaz, Casablanca.
-Solo exhibition, ” Artisans des temps modernes ” en solo, Journées du Patrimoine, 2016. BNRM Rabat.
-Solo exhibition” Sine Die ” , à Tanger aux ” Insolites “, Tanger 2016.
-Group exhibition, Les nuits photographiques d’Essaouira, Essaouira 2016.
-Group exhibition, Freedom of stories by Kasbah Neuf, Amsteram 2016.
-Expo COP22, ” Tamghart ” , Palais des congrés à Marrakech, 2016.
-Group exhibition, Dabaphoto2 aux 18 Derb el Ferrane, Marrakech, octobre 2016.
-Group exhibition African Lens, South Africa, Cape Town, 2016.
-Solo exhibition, IROLOGY Fnac Casablanca 2016.
-Group exhibition ” Everyday Casablanca ” à l’institut français de Casablanca, 2017.
-Duo exhibition "Chroniques d’un changement annoncé" Zakaria Wakrim & M’hammed Kilito Festival Résonances , Rabat, avril 2017.
-Group exhibition " Espace publique, Espace privé ", Les Rencontres photographiques de Rabat @Espace Exhibition CDG, Rabat 2017.
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