Paris, France
ZARAH CASSIM is a painter concerned with notions of perception. She uses the mediums of painting and...
About the artist
Joined In 2015
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About the artist
Joined In 2015
(43 Followers)
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 ...
Showed at the The Other Art Fair
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