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Saïd Lahssini
- Morocco - Born : 1959 in El Kelaa des Sraghna.
Said Lahssini live and work in Marrakech. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Tétouan before continuing his training in 1981 at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, where he developed a distinctive pictorial language shaped by both local heritage and international influences.
His work operates at the intersection of image-as-sign and image-as-concept, where memory, the unconscious, and perception converge. Rejecting academic conventions, he has built a free and unconventional visual language, at times marked by a psychological intensity reminiscent of Salvador Dalí.
His paintings depict distorted, sometimes grotesque figures bordering on the monstrous, revealing a social reality shaped by suffering, taboo, and marginalization. Through these unsettling forms, he offers a critical and nuanced reading of the human condition, oscillating between gravity and irony.
His technique is defined by precise and controlled draftsmanship combined with a carefully balanced, often muted palette. This chromatic restraint enhances a deep sensibility marked by disillusionment and restrained revolt, allowing expressive power to emerge with subtlety.
An iconoclastic artist, Said Lahssini has developed a coherent and compelling body of work, drawing on hallucinatory imagery to question our perception of reality and engage the viewer’s consciousness.
Saïd Lahssini
- Morocco - Born : 1959 in El Kelaa des Sraghna.
Said Lahssini live and work in Marrakech. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Tétouan before continuing his training in 1981 at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, where he developed a distinctive pictorial language shaped by both local heritage and international influences.
His work operates at the intersection of image-as-sign and image-as-concept, where memory, the unconscious, and perception converge. Rejecting academic conventions, he has built a free and unconventional visual language, at times marked by a psychological intensity reminiscent of Salvador Dalí.
His paintings depict distorted, sometimes grotesque figures bordering on the monstrous, revealing a social reality shaped by suffering, taboo, and marginalization. Through these unsettling forms, he offers a critical and nuanced reading of the human condition, oscillating between gravity and irony.
His technique is defined by precise and controlled draftsmanship combined with a carefully balanced, often muted palette. This chromatic restraint enhances a deep sensibility marked by disillusionment and restrained revolt, allowing expressive power to emerge with subtlety.
An iconoclastic artist, Said Lahssini has developed a coherent and compelling body of work, drawing on hallucinatory imagery to question our perception of reality and engage the viewer’s consciousness.
