Hassan Bourkia was born on December 19, 1956 in El Ksiba, near Beni Mellal. He is a writer, translator and visual artist. He has been teaching literature since 1982 and has exhibited since the early 1990s in the most important art galleries in Morocco, and in various places abroad. He recently participated in the Buenos Aires Biennial of Contemporary Art (Bienalsur), and his works are part of several major private collections and museums. Hassan Bourkia has been exploring the fields of memory for several years to talk about the drama of immigration and the suffering caused by the trauma of conflicts around the world. He draws from his own life the experience of an intimate apocalypse which pushes him to work on collective wounds using the notion of archives and fragments. He lives and works between Beni Mellal and Marrakech.
