Saïd Afifi was born in Casablanca in 1983.
Saïd Afifi is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux-Arts de Tétouan and the École du Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains.
With a passion for cinema, literature and new technologies, he has been developing research into postmodernist architecture since 2012, claiming among other things the influence of the texts of Nietzsche and Jean Baudrillard, as well as the architectural forms of Claude Parent and Le Corbusier. He does not hesitate to borrow some of their “obsessions”: time, speed, archaeology, identity and so on. More recently, his work has turned to the issues of the natural landscape, biomimicry and the impact of new technologies on our observation of the world.
Saïd Afifi's work coexists with an ambivalence that slips from one work to the next without ever allowing us to grasp the entirety of the issues at stake.
In 2018, he exhibited for the first time at Le Fresnoy, the immersive virtual reality installation Yemaya, accompanied by five drawings. Here, visitors are invited - through the prism of virtual reality goggles - to wander through a cave on a meditative and poetic wander.
Saïd Afifi's work has been included in numerous public and private collections, including the Bank Al-Maghrib Museum (Morocco), the Musée d'Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL), and the Norval Foundation (South Africa).
Saïd Afifi lives and works in Paris.