Zarah Cassim

ZARAH CASSIM is a painter concerned with notions of perception. She uses the mediums of painting and photography to affect a viewer’s encounter with spatial illusion and reflect the
creative filter through which she views the world. Woven into the theme of unveiling the artifice of reality, is a concern with natural forms and spaces. It is in natural forms that she finds the vehicle for a sense of disorientation: the reflection of a chaotic or absurd world, which marks a breaking point for the human condition. Each work is a personal reflection for Cassim: a sensitive, romantic memory. Some of her surfaces revel in the flat beauty of the painted mark, inviting the viewer to be seduced by the texture and material of her tool of illusion. Other works evoke a dreamlike, ungraspable landscape that threatens to dissolve at any concrete claim over form. Cassim is a 25 year old artist, born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. She graduated with an Honours in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town in 2014. She currently lives and works in Paris.

University of Cape Town, Michaelis School of Fine Art

EXHIBITIONS

2013

Sasol New Signatures Finalist

Lazuli at MBFWCT (Mercedes Benz Fashion Week CT)

2014

Michaelis Graduate Exhibition

Lazuli at MBFWCT (Mercedes Benz Fashion Week CT)

2015

ThatArtFair - solo

Paint it Black Group show - Salon91 Gallery

These Spaces/ These Places , solo exhibition - 99 Loop Gallery

Absa l’atelier Finalist - Absa Gallery JHB

Turbine Art Fair - Blackout Group show - Salon91 Gallery

First Thursday pop-up Exhibition - S Art Gallery

Stellar Group show at Salon91 Gallery

1.99 Group show - 99 Loop Gallery

Lazuli at MBFWCT (Mercedes Benz Fashion Week CT)

2016

Aeipathy Group show - Equus Gallery

ThatArtFair 2016

The Spaces Between the Maps - KKNK ABSA Gallery

Optical Diversion Groupshow - Eclectica Art

30 x 30 under 30 Groupshow - Rust-en-Vrede Gallery

The Grand III - Rust-en-Vrede Gallery

Alteration Group Show - 99 Loop Gallery

Moooi Group Show - The Boutique Gallery

2017

The Other Art Fair New York

Guise of Reality Solo - Salon 91

Trees make forests - Salon 91

Nano 1.1 - Barnard gallery

Turbine art fair - Salon 91

AAF NYC

AAF Stockholm

AAF London

AAF Amsterdam

AAF Singapore

Trees Make Forest - Salon 91

2018

Autumnus - Otomys’s Gallery Melbourne

Cape Town Art Fair - Salon ...