Ziad Naitaddi will hold a masterclass at the Batalha Cinema Center as well a workshop at ESAP

As part of an exhibition at DÍNAMO gallery, curated by Elisabeth Piskernik, Moroccan artist Ziad Naitaddi will hold a masterclass at the Batalha Cinema Center as well a workshop at ESAP for the students of Visual Arts-Photography + Cinema and Audiovisual courses.

By addressing the complexity of our existence, the distinction between copyright and intellectual property, and the ways in which moving-visual objects can inspire universal-biographical confessions, Ziad Naitaddi’s research projects—which are shaped by his artistic practice and self-reflection—question the necessity of imposing technical limitations on themselves after already facing intellectual and philosophical ones.

Ziad Naitaddi, born in 1995 in Rabat, Ziad Naitaddi is an artist who lives and works in Rabat, Morocco. His affection for the visual arts first developed through cinema, through Fouad, a pirated DVD seller in the Medina of Rabat, who introduced him to a wide range of films and directors. He quickly became interested in the hybridity of the photographic medium, which offered him a choice way to explore his favorite subjects, in an approach halfway between the documentary and the fictional. If he oscillates between digital and ante-digital practice, he favors the slowness of the process of the latter to short-circuit the proliferation of images of our daily lives. So much so that he sometimes moves away from the physical act of photographing. In this perspective, he re-appropriates archives, written and oral testimonies or even returns to his own photographs a few years after their development. In his latest projects, he explores the subject of migration and its corollaries – the distance from the native land, the feeling of exile, integration, or exclusion – which he sees as the space for a complex encounter. Well aware of working under the prism of his personal perception, he also reflects on the construction and evolution of his own identity. His work has been exhibited in several shows, including Centre d’Art Contemporain Photographique – Villa Pérochon, 13th Dakar Biennale, Le Cube-Independent Art Room, Sharjah Art Foundation, Museo Nazionale MAXXI in Roma, Fotogalerie WUK, etc.