Visual artist
Driss JABRI
Driss Jabri, a Fine Arts student and visual artist, creates work across sculpture, video, and installation that explores the tension between what is shaped and what exists, centering the human experience. His recent installation addresses invisible boundaries in postcolonial societies, reflecting on how social advancement can require adopting foreign codes at the expense of one’s identity. Using materials, media, and a mirror element, the work invites viewers to consider choices between preserving, blending, or abandoning their identity and to confront their own place within these societal pressures.
What have you lost?
Wall installation
The work addresses the “invisible boundaries” imposed by Western norms in postcolonial societies, where social advancement often depends on adopting foreign codes at the expense of one’s own identity and values. Through a wall installation, it reflects on the choices individuals face under this pressure: preserving their identity, blending it, or abandoning it to gain social opportunities. The mirror element invites viewers to confront their own place within this system.The artwork poses a question: أش مشالك؟ “What have you lost?”
