Adrift project

Hassan Darsi was born in Casablanca.

After seven years of artistic studies at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Plastiques et Visuels de Mons in Belgium, he returned to Morocco in 1989. In 1995, he founded La Source du lion in Casablanca, which he defined as a project of artist and maintains, in the form of the Passerelles Artistiques, close links with his personal work.

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Hassan Darsi's artistic activity is strongly influenced by his experience, his daily life, his environment, based on work processes, multiple mediums, and often in the form of participatory projects. His work has always been closely linked to the social, cultural, political and economic context of his country as well as its interactions with the global context. His journey brings together gestures and productions that challenge the simple art object as a horizon of creative activity. The action and the process are as important in his approach as the work itself. A citizen above all, commitment is an essential factor in his life as a man and an artist. The works and projects that he develops are characterized by a critical and socio-political positioning which is expressed through the notion of project, as a privileged tool of action. The urban interventions, installations, films and sculptures that he has created are nourished by the context where he lives and works, as well as the places and situations that cross his life.

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He is deeply convinced that art has an essential role to play in the cultural and human development of his city, his country and the world as a whole, and for many years he has tried, on his own scale, although very small scale in relation to a vast project, to signal, highlight, and carry out works and projects as triggers for citizen and political awareness.

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Today, after having often made the city his favorite terrain, his desire is to explore other often forgotten public spaces, those of the countryside of the Greater Casablanca-Settat region, symbolically located between the economic capital, Casablanca, and the political and administrative capital of Rabat. Its objective is to experiment, based on a project and a context, with new practices and artistic forms, to create a common thread which contributes to weaving social bonds. A project which is part of the artistic field while proposing possible social, ecological and economic alternatives to a territory. (FRD)

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