Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa is an independent curator and researcher. She began her professional career in Morocco at the National Museum Foundation, then at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art as head of cultural programming (2013–2018). She is interested in the layered subjectivities of European modern art history and the construction of Moroccan modernism through the works of artists engaging with the vernacular. Her research is oriented towards the sociology and history of the artistic avant-garde in Morocco during the 1960s and 1970s.

Lakrissa also studies contemporary art practices that tend to reorganize relations between rural and urban areas, scholarly and popular culture, and crafts and fine arts, and analyzes the new patrimonial and historiographical perspectives they reflect. Her curatorial projects include Mohammed Chabâa. Visual Consciousness for Zamân Books & Curating at Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi (2021); À l’épreuve du tamis, LE 18, Marrakech (2020); Belkahia contemporain, Artorium, Casablanca (2019); and Ahmed Cherkaoui. Entre modernité et enracinement, Musée Mohammed VI, Rabat (2018). She was also the associate curator for L’École des beaux-arts de Casablanca: Belkahia, Chabâa, Melehi. La fabrique de l’art et de l’histoire, 6^th Marrakesh Biennial (2016). She is the author of several essays published in exhibition catalogs and specialized magazines. Her latest research and exhibition project is called Turning Frozen Yesterdays into Fluid Now for the School of Casablanca, a research and creation project initiated by KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) and Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah), in collaboration with ThinkArt (Casablanca), Zamân Books & Curating (Paris) and the Goethe-Institut Marokko (2023–2024).

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