About
Bio:
Zach Wassef (b.2003) is an image and sound-based artist who is from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, resides in Brooklyn, and is currently a candidate in their final year for their Bachelor in Fine Art in Photography from Parsons School for Design. Their work focuses on the home and interruptions of the natural world caused by humans. Often, the climate emergency and the effects of technological politics act as a motif in their work. Wassef has been featured in group exhibitions at Drexel University in 2019 and 2020, Dallas Center of Photography in 2020, and three group shows in the Parsons BFA Gallery in 2023 and 2024. They have also curated multiple zines and four group exhibitions for the Parsons BFA Photography Gallery. Their upcoming exhibitions include the 2025 Parsons BFA Photography Thesis show.
Artist Statement:
In my practice, I explore boundaries, traces, the notion of will, and disappearance through the medium of photography, sound, the archive, and moving-image. My visual work often blends landscape and still-life imagery, archiving the trail of memory or evidence of human activity. Focusing on the environmental collapse and its connection with human rights and memory, I teeter on the edge of obstruction and isolation in my search for the border of human activity and chase the ghosts that it leaves behind. While my work mirrors the visual codes of landscape photography, I think of the images as portraits of the land. Wandering and listening play a key role in my practice leading me to create the character of the invisible force and chase ghosts that human activity inherently leaves behind. I aim to absolve myself into the landscape, allowing me to listen and be led to the fragments I aim to archive. I desire to memorialize the marks and wounds that reflect human authority and bear witness to the trauma of land, and to contribute to the understanding that individual will does not stray far from that of the natural world.
Recent:
2019 Drexel University Group Show
2020 TAEA Visual Arts Scholastic Event State Finalist
2020 Dallas Center of Photography Human Portrait Group Show
2020 Drexel University Group Show
2021 Parsons School of Design Merit Scholarship
2023 Parsons BFA Fall Group Show
2023 PhotoFeast Zine X
2023 Parsons BFA Fall N3 Group Show
2024 Parsons BFA Spring N3 Group Show
2023-2025 Parsons BFA Fall N5 Gallery Curation
2023-2025 Parsons PhotoFeast Annual Zine Curator