Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa

Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa (born 1976 in Rabat) 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 reorganise relations between rural and urban areas, scholarly and popular culture and crafts and fine arts, and analyses the new patrimonial and historiographical perspectives they reflect.