Laureate of Fine Arts institute of Tetouan in 2008, he joined the Chantal Akerman promotion of the National Studio of Contemporary Arts - Le Fresnoy in 2016 from which he graduated with the congratulations of the jury in 2018. In 2018, he exhibited for the first time at Le Fresnoy, the immersive installation Yemaya, in virtual reality accompanied by five drawings.
The visitor is invited here – through the prism of virtual reality glasses – to walk through a cave during a meditative and poetic stroll. This work consists of scientific images of three true-to-life underwater caves (located in the Mediterranean). The details and volumes of these caves were captured through the process of photogrammetry by thousands of two-dimensional photographs in very high definition, processed and assembled with software to reproduce a three-dimensional space.
Fascinated by the precision of scientific digital images and their ability to renew our perception of the world, Saïd Afifi has appropriated this material here to bring these images together in a single cave. Like a researcher and an obsessive collector, he extracted, duplicated and assembled details from each.
