Youssef Taki (Oujda, Morocco, 1995) is an artist, educator, and researcher. His work operates at the intersection of artistic practice and academic research, combining methodologies from colonial studies and decolonial theory with his own experience as a migrant within the European context. Through image-making, archival practices, vernacular records, and counter-hegemonic narratives, he investigates how colonial and postcolonial structures continue to operate in the production of visual narratives, shaping identities, memories, and bodies traversed by borders.

His practice engages with questions of self-representation, interculturality, territoriality, and the politics of visuality, using artistic practice as a space of resistance and critical re-reading of hegemonic discourses. He has participated in national and international exhibitions and gatherings, including the Dakar Biennale, the Larnaca Biennale, the TEA Contemporary Biennial, and the Tenerife International Photography Biennial, as well as in institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Disseny Hub Barcelona, the Museo del Prado, the Instituto Cervantes, the Goethe-Institut, the Ateneo de Madrid, the Fundación Antonio Pérez, and the Colegio de España at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. He has also exhibited in international galleries such as Berry Campbell (New York) and MENA Art Gallery (Berlin), and in key spaces within the Spanish context, including Galería Freijó, in dialogue with Joan Fontcuberta.

He is also a member of the collective Al’ Akhawat, with whom he develops socially engaged, community-based, and cultural mediation projects. He is the author of the book Fuera de lugar (2022) and has developed multiple research and creation projects that explore memory, imaginaries, and visual narratives, challenging hegemonic discourses and proposing new forms of representation grounded in poetics and cultural resistance.