AMINA ZOUBIR
LA MARCHE INVISIBLE
08/10 - 12/11 2022
"The Invisible Walk" is a solo exhibition presenting the work of paintings named "Mermaids' Dreams" that artist Amina ZOUBIR has developed in collaboration with different hairdressers in Château d'Eau and Château Rouge in Paris.
Previously, her work was dedicated to the use of video, photography, collage and sculpture. Amina Zoubir has chosen to collect hair as her latest research and creation material since 2017 to continue her experimentation on the deconstruction of the gaze on the bodies of African women. The protean research and artistic practice explores the human condition and the conceptualisation through aesthetic forms of the gaze on African and Muslim women. She conceptualises different narratives to refer to the female body in the city and the factors that influence her relationship to the urban environment.
In the midst of her examination, the artist translates and retranscribes research methodologies through the fabrication and creation of forms from unusual materials in painting such as the inlay of hair, in this case women's hair, a fundamental element that is emphasised but masked by the use of the veil. This innovative work focuses on the manipulation of hair, fixed with glue and modelled with resin and acrylic paint, as an alternative way of experiencing the act of painting, an elusive gesture of painting the body in its absence.
- Text by Sara Catalan, Curator
Amina Zoubir lives and works between Paris, France) and Algiers, Algeria.
She is a visual artist, director and curator of video art.
Amina Zoubir is an Algerian visual artist and video maker who works on the notion of the body and its interactions in public spaces to question and analyze social and historical thoughts in North Africa.
Through her installations, photo-collages and performances, she refers to the behavioral transfer of the unconscious of individuals when they evolve in spaces predetermined by socio-political norms and cultural codifications, while her intention is to create a distortion in order to thwart the established order.
Using bodies of objects and individuals interacting with urban and rural spaces around the world, Amina Zoubir's poetic art makes us look at the human/animal/object body and challenges us to reflect on the established rules of our contemporary society.
The concepts developed through her works solicit notions, positionings and tensions of language of the human/animal/object body and its articulation in urban/rural/fictional space. A shifted and poetic look at the body, articulated by spaces favoring the paradigm of the watcher being watched.
She has a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art and New Media from the University of Paris 8 (2009, France) and a DESA in Graphic Design from the School of Fine Arts in Algiers (2006, Algeria). His works have been exhibited in biennials such as the Lahore Biennale (2020), the Venice Biennale in the first Algerian pavilion (2019), the BISO Ouagadougou Sculpture Biennale (2019), the Cairo Biennale (2019), Dakar Biennale (2018), Lagos Biennale (2017), Lagos Photo Festival (2017), Casablanca Biennale (2016), Addis FotoFest (2014), BY14 Yakutsk Russia Biennale (2014), Pontevedra Biennale (2008) ; She has participated in group exhibitions in museums such as MAXXI in Rome (Italy), MUSAC in Leon (Spain), CAAM in Las Palmas (Canary Islands), Torrance Art Museum (California, USA), as well as in galleries such as Primo Marella Gallery, PasaJist Gallery, Pink Gallery, Vovatanya Gallery, Photon Center for Contemporary Photography, Artos Foundation, TAC, and Leonardo Palazzo d'Arte contemporanea.
Her works are part of public and private collections at the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), CAAM Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (Spain), MARKK Museum (Germany), Etnografiska Museet (Sweden), Fondation Donwahi (Ivory Coast), FRAC Occitanie Les Abattoires Toulouse.
Opening hours
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Coordonnées
+33 6 50 58 94 96
39 rue Dautancourt
75017, Paris