ARTIST STATEMENT
Diyae Dakir (b. 1988, Morocco) is a self-taught visual artist whose work explores transformation, identity, and value through the use of recontextualized organic materials. After more than twelve years in finance and consulting, she left the corporate world to fully commit to artistic practice.
Her work centers on fish scales — fragments once part of a living body, marked by time, movement, and survival. Each scale, unique in form and texture, creates unstable, ever-shifting surfaces that echo the shifting nature of human identity.
Both aesthetic and ethical, Diyae Dakir’s gesture consists in reclaiming a material set aside by the fishing process and revealing its symbolic weight. Through this transformation, her work questions hierarchies of value and opens a space of reflection on what we choose to regard as precious, and on the metamorphoses that become possible when matter — like the self — is llowed to be reimagined.
