A contemporary Multimedia & Conceptual Artist based in Toronto (ON).

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Oumaima Harki, a contemporary artist born in Taza (Morocco) in 1998 and now based in Toronto (Ontario). I graduated from the “National Institute of Fine Arts” in Tetouan (Morocco), and from the “Faculty of Education Sciences” in Rabat (Morocco) where I pursued a master’s degree in “Aesthetic Education”. Trilingual, I move fluidly across languages and cultures, an openness that also shapes the way I think, researches, and creates.

My drawings, paintings, and installations embody themes that resonate within individuals and their inner self, as an attempt to establish a dialogue between art, living experiences, and imagination. Through the use of celestial elements, natural forms, and cosmic patterns, I explore the oneness between the self and the universe, illustrating how all existence is interconnected. In my work, I seek to uncover subjects and emotions, striving to present my own interpretation of the world by representing its aspects as a mental narration process.

What I love the most about contemporary art is the freedom it offers me as an artist, allowing me to judge myself while providing responsible and reasonable freedom to succeed in this exercise. Therefore, I try out various techniques and media supports because, for me, art and life are experiments that require from us to embrace their diversity.

Consequently, I create a world that feeds on colors and brilliance, inspired occasionally by imaginative concepts that quickly clash with reality, raising existential questions deeply rooted within me, questioning everything I know. Hence, I leave it to the viewers to reassess themselves against what they know or, rather, “believe they know”.