Together with a small group of like-minded Moroccan artists, Hassan Darsi founded “La Source du lion” in Casablanca in 1995, an organisation devoted to the promotion and advancement of contemporary art in the Northern African kingdom. Inevitably, much of Darsi’s individual artistic practice is motivated by broadly social or political concerns; at the same time (and much like the work of his compatriot Hicham Benohoud), his work is also deeply rooted in the photographic tradition of the tableau, revealing its debt to the generally better-known work of studio photographers from Sub-Saharan Africa.