Hassan Darsi was born in Casablanca in 1961.
After studying at the Mons School of Visual Arts in Belgium, he returned to Casablanca in 1989. In 1995, he founded the La Source du lion project in Casablanca, with which his personal work continues to have close ties, revolving around the concept of Passerelles artistiques and participatory projects.
From 1999 onwards, he turned his attention to gilding, covering various objects (dolls, garden chairs, televisions, tanks, teeth, etc.) with gold adhesive, as well as public spaces, such as the facade of an art gallery in Casablanca in 2008.
Over a period of more than 20 years, Hassan Darsi has developed a multi-faceted body of work: photography, installations, sculptures, interventions in public spaces, models, performances, video films and participatory projects involving other disciplines, dance, poetry, architecture... A work complex by the diversity of its mediums and the links that each work, each object and each series maintains with different contexts, political, social, cultural... Nurtured by the utopia of a “total work of art”, which finds its meaning in the multiplicity of creative disciplines, in history - past and present - in philosophy, politics and current affairs, he proposes a body of work that goes against the grain of globalized art and is always inscribed in specific contexts and contemporary realities.
His work has been included in prestigious public and private collections in Morocco and abroad, including Beaubourg in Paris, the Zorlu Center in Istanbul and the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne.
Hassan Darsi lives and works in Casablanca.