Safaa Mazirh produced her first images in Southern of Morocco by photographing young children in remote villages. Very quickly, one is struck by the use of black and white, the tight framing that extracts faces in any context, the play of light that blackens the eyes and creates unreal scenes. In the following series Dolls, Safaa Mazirh’s ability to project the viewer into a universe where her own imagination takes precedence over the real, is forceful. Thus, the dramatization of the real becomes the essential determinism of her creativity – it intermingles with the Body series which follows. It therefore naturally imposes itself in her research process, where it queries both the subject and the ability of the photographic technique to translate her artistic experience. […] The body is in movement, often in a blur, the effects of light and matter act fully, and the images impose an indecipherable mystery, like the detached evidence of a biographical narrative that ultimately belongs to the artist and leaves the viewer alone facing the dream.
Bernard Millet, Else, June 2015
Safaa Mazirh is represented by Galerie 127 – Nathalie Locatelli in Marrakech.
BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ARAB WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY
Selfportraits
Safaa Mazirh
From November 11th, 2015 to January 17th, 2016
Cité Internationale des Arts
18 rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, Le Corridor
75004 Paris
France
Monday – Sunday 12pm – 2pm
Free Entrance
+33 1 44 54 75 04
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