Biography
Through multidisciplinary practice involving video, sound, installation, performance, photography, and drawing, I aim to do a research about the simplification of the complex and paradoxical atmosphere of the world we live in now. I write unfinished scripts and show it through stripped perspectives around me. When I walk on the streets what I see becomes this conglomerate excerpts of my visual experience that I use to transform the mundane into works of art. I explore these subjects with a sincere quest for beauty, and at the same time, to enjoy their absurdity.
The intersection between art, technology, and imagination is the fundamental theme in my creating processes. As an artist, I am trying to develop and explore the relationships between the real and virtual spaces. I create works that scrutinize relationships existing on and between the surfaces and infrastructure of global media.
My works deal with issues of commitment. I creat “engaged” art that criticizes just as certain social issues form how I express my work.The ready-made is also a source of inspiration for my approach – a personal or transdisciplinary vision on issues related to social systems.
Born in 1986 in Tiznit (M), Said Rais lives and works in Tiznit (M).
Said Rais is an artist who graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan. His conceptual works based on mixed media: video, sound, but also interactive installation, performance, photography and drawing. His work explores the relationship between art and technology, and questions the societal and ecological issues. He is particularly interested in «the interval that articulates the flow of daily events in a world of permanent equilibrium.»
He participated in various exhibitions and festivals national and international. Including ,in 2011: projection vidéo au Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine, dans le cadre des plates-formes Méditerranée Arts // Galerie Talmart, Paris (France). 2011, «BJCEM», 15ème biennale de la méditerranée, Thessalonique (Grèce). 2013: Festival Mundial Arte Pela Pas - Festival international d’art dans Uba, (Brésil), 2014: TAM Torrance Art Museum (Californie, USA) in the context of TIME is Love.7 -show 6 International Video art Program,Curated By Kisito Assangni, to the Museum of New Art (Michigan, USA) in The Selfie Show,curated by Jef Bourgeau, and Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain- curator Mohamed Rachdi, (Rabat, Maroc) for the inaugural exhibition. Museum Municipal of Modern Art Mendoza (Argentine) and «Mastermind» gallery Venise Cadre, Casablanca (Morocco , 2015).
