Fatiha Zemmouri Moroccan , b. 1966

Born in 1966, visual artist Fatiha Zemmouri is a graduate of the Casablanca School of Fine Arts. Very early in her career she developed interest in materials such as coal, burnt wood, ceramic, and porcelain. Zemmouri is an artist who aims to be materialistic in the sense where the exploration of an expanded palette of materials is at the heart of her work. The game of polyphony is used to accentuate the chronology that marks the different stages of the process of development and evolution of material itself.

  

Through polymorphic artwork, Fatiha Zemmouri carries thorough thinking around the notion of construction, deconstruction, regeneration and transformation. The artist develops an elaborate work in which natural elements such as water, fire and earth are fused with additional materials such as wood, coal, and dirt, having an essential place in her creations.

 

In all her works, Zemmouri uses an abstract vocabulary to simplify nature’s shapes, the fragility and the thinness of the employed materials give to her artworks a poetical aspect. What interests her most in metamorphosis, is in between the analysis of the complex mechanism of transformation along with highlighting the notion of time that elapses between the starting object and the transformed object.

 

Fatiha Zemmouri has participated in many individual and group shows in Morocco and abroad. Her works are included in momentous public and private collections.