Born in 1982 in Casablanca, Swiss-Moroccan transdisciplinary artist Zerrou is a graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan and currently lives and works between Casablanca and Vira Gambarogno.
His artistic practice spans video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, focusing on universal symbolic figures, their graphic representations, and the interplay of language, history, and visual culture.

Zerrou engages with local communities to address both global and local contemporary issues. His fascination with the power of symbols, words, and collective memory underpins an artistic practice that deconstructs and reinterprets the imagery shaping our collective consciousness, challenging perceptions and inviting critical reflection.

By exploring themes like identity, political structures, and cultural narratives, his work recontextualizes familiar symbols within new aesthetic discourses. Using mixed media, he plays with layers of meaning, evoking tensions between visibility and invisibility, past and present, power and vulnerability.
His projects foster spaces for dialogue, encouraging audiences to engage, reflect, and discover personal connections to the themes presented.

Whether through wordplay, light, or delicate stitching, Zerrou invites viewers to rethink the narratives surrounding them, uncover new possibilities in the symbols and stories that shape their world, and explore the boundaries that define us as individuals and communities. His work offers fresh perspectives that provoke thought, evoke empathy, and inspire a deeper understanding of the shared human experience.

Zerrou has exhibited at venues such as the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, the Museum of Photography and Visual Arts in Marrakech, the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, England, and La Regionale at Villa Ciani in Lugano. He has been awarded notable residencies, including at the Dar Al Ma’mûn Foundation in Marrakech, the European Capital of Culture in Valletta, Malta, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and the HYam Prize in Hydra.