Mohammed Zakaria is a Palestinian-Jordanian conceptual artist and community activist. His work enacts a revolution on semantic stagnation, dismantling dominant meanings to rebuild new forms from the "rubble." For Zakaria, the medium is secondary; re-meaning is the craft.
Driven by an investigative process, he believes questions are the engine of creation, not rhetorical devices. He frames his practice around conceptual inquiries like: "How can one capture Palestinian iconography through popular resistance?" or "How can skateboarding be used to build community?" This methodology is tested through projects that span photography, installation, text, and social interventions.
Zakaria’s work transforms everyday elements into catalysts for new understanding. Skateparks become sites for social change, pop culture toys are reframed as national symbols, and language is stripped of its easy definitions to reveal new layers of meaning.
Notable projects include Seven Hills (2014), a skatepark building a community in downtown Amman; All Things Are Abstract Until We Give Them Meaning (2023), a photographic study of light as a pure abstraction; and Jabbar (2024), an attempt to capture and reflect on Palestinian iconography.
Zakaria lives and works in Amman, Jordan.
