Research and Articles
Writing and narration is an essential part of any of my projects. During my PHD in Arts, I develop, as part of the doctoral review Les Chantiers de la création, a written, video, and audio work focusing on artist portraits (2018–2021).
https://journals.openedition.org/lcc/4560
Following a health incident that forced me into isolation, I wrote an autofictional article that gave rise to a multimedia installation entitled Pain and Other Things.https://journals.openedition.org/lcc/3939
Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts, 2012-2014
MA/DESS Political Sciences International relations/Arab World, 2000-2006.
My artistic production is marked by my life experiences, my research, and my chosen exile abroad, from Cuba to Cairo, where I lived for close to ten years.
Starting with documentary research, I create fictional realities that are sometimes fantastical but always inspired by a scientific approach. In 2023, during my doctoral research, I developed the notion of membrane form to describe sensitive artistic works that allow an artistic experience to blossom. My work is imbued with this search for a form of universal sensory truth.
Suffering from a chronic skin disease, I approach the image in its materiality and internal volume. I superimpose, extend, zoom in, and seek to get to the heart of what an image contains through addition. Sculpture has permeated my gaze and my way of conceiving an image or a work.
For me, installation is a sculpted body or body-space where I construct the plural modalities of an experience for other bodies. Often, before conceiving a film, I create an installation to think about its spatiality. Composed of original rushes and often important archives, my films attempt to articulate the past and present through strong characters that I measure against collective history.
Of African origin, both Jewish and Arab, I quickly developed an obsession with individual memory and how it intertwines with collective memory to create a common narrative. In searching for my origins, I filmed others: young female filmmakers from Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine, and the life of one of the last Egyptian Jews and communist activists in the midst of the Arab Spring.
If we continually recreate the same work, then my reading of the world is political and through my portraits, whether photographic, animated, or imagined, I try to think about the notions of resistance and identity in a contemporary context, but always in the light of what was.
Transmission is central to my work and can take the form of interventions or exhibition booklets, but more often than not it is invisible, inscribed in the layout of the installation or the editing of a shot.
