Category: Algeria
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Houria Mosbah is an Algerian artist whose multidisciplinary work spans music, photography, art direction, and design. Her artistic journey is rooted in Algiers, grounding her work in personal narratives that explore broader themes such as cultural identity, nostalgia, and the everyday paradoxes of Algerian life. Her projects, including the photography series Dolce Wa Banana and her clothing…
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Kenzä Bousseloub (كنزة بوسلوب) is an Algerian- American artist who works in film, photography, and journalism. Although her artistry is generally based in the city of Philadelphia, she has created internationally subjective documentary projects and continues to do so locally as she grounds her work in personal stories where she aims to explore larger themes…
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Founder of the Tilawin Project, Liasmine FODIL was born and lives in Algeria. In her photographic practice, she takes a critical look at her environment to try to understand its functioning; she also questions the place of women in society. It is through individual stories that she addresses her questions. She has exhibited her work…
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Khadidja Markemal, a photographer and artisan, has been immersed in the world of visual arts since 2015. Her lens captures life’s moments, both ordinary and extraordinary: her daily routine, captivating journeys, and the faces of those she encounters. These experiences often blossom into photographic series, sometimes morphing into hybrid forms that interweave sound and video.…
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Born in 1997, Aya developed a profound passion for culture and art at an early age, particularly leaning towards literature. This inclination led her to specialize in literature after completing her baccalaureate. Having pursued French language and literature studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Constantine, Aya Bennacer dedicated few years to teaching French in…
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Nesrine Salem is interested in the hypervisibilization of diasporic beings. She uses post-digital image-capture methods such as 360° cameras to gather filmic material that she calls “reported videos”. Through her video work and the installation of her films, she highlights a common elsewhere, its strangeness as well as its familiarity, by connecting seemingly unrelated spaces.…
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Amira Louadah was born in Algiers. From 2014 to 2021, she studied design and visual arts at Ensci, les Ateliers de Paris, where she developed a passion for staging and storytelling. During her studies, she embarked on formative journeys, including stays in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and New York City, United States, where she began capturing…
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A twenty something architecture graduate from Algiers whopicked up her father’s compact camera at the age of 17 with ascattered yet curious gaze. Slowly, what started as an absent-minded and inattentive practice turned into a tool for me to make sense of my surroundings. Growing up in a dense urban area, the details that make…
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“Since I “re/came” to settle in Algeria in 2015, I have been developing a practice as a graphic designer, artist, trainer and cultural practitioner. Through my medium which is graphic design, I experiment with cartography, lettering and editing. I created with Riad Hamed Abdelouahab a graphic studio called “Chimbo” (wild cactus growing on the side of…
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Cléa Rekhou (b. 1988, Paris) is a French-Algerian visual storyteller based in Algiers, Algeria. She grew up in a housing estate on the Paris outskirts and faced social challenges that today nourish her work, her motive and the genesis of most of her projects. After graduating from college with a master degree in Corporate Finance,…
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Rima Rezaiguia simultaneously pursues her career as an architect, managing an engineering firm, and her work as a visual artist. Born in Annaba in 1985, Rima Rezaiguia joined the Higher School of Plastic Arts in Nord-Pas de Calais and graduated with a DNAP in 2016. She participated in several exhibitions in Annaba and Algiers. “This…
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Mesbah Nesma (Jewee), is an Illustrator, graphic designer and author based in Algiers, Algeria. She illustrate stories for children using bright and playful colours, shapes and textures. On the other hand, she writes, illustrate and documents stories inspired by her city “Algiers”, her friends and her own experience a young adult. She published two graphic…
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Born in 1994, Sarah Ben Amar started practicing photography at 17. She continued throughout her studies in English and History. She also became interested in film during that period. Her primary focus is on the relationship between the collective and the individual and how space shapes or mirrors that relationship. She has been a resident…
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Gigi is an Algerian comic artist and freelance illustrator based in Paris. After graduating from Architecture School in Algiers, she is now pursuing a master’s degree in History and Heritage in Paris. She published her first comic book “Rwidjel & The Cat” at the publishing house Dalimen, released during the 14th edition of the Algiers’…
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(1934 – 2023) Souhila Belbahar was an Algerian painter. In 2018, she was awarded Algeria’s National Order of Merit. Belbahar was born in Blida, Algeria, in 1934. A self-taught artist, she held her first exhibition in 1971, at the age of 37. Since that time, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in…