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Zoubir, Amina

Born 1983 in Algiers, Algeria
Lives and works between Paris, France and Algiers, Algeria

Amina Zoubir, Peau Blanche, Masques Noirs, Wax sculpture, 49 x 29 x 5 cm, Courtesy Primo Marella Gallery 

The concepts developed through Zoubir’s artworks request the notions, the positioning and tensions of language of the human being/animal/object bodies and its articulation in urban/rural/ fictional spaces. Her installations, drawings, videos, sculptures, photographs, land art are textual and contextual interventions on materials: wax, wood, metals and wall, reveal and deconstruct a behavioural allusion of the unconscious and the imagination of individuals, evolving in a predetermined space according to the sociocultural, ethno-psychical and political contexts. The intention of the created images tries to embellish this moment of distance of the ordinary. A moved and poetic look on the body, articulated by spaces favouring the positioning of who look is looked.

The aesthetic developed in Zoubir’s research and artistic practice examine social and historical thoughts through the Maghrebi poetics and mythology in North Africa. Zoubir’s request the positioning and the tensions of the claim slogans as textual and contextual interventions on wax materials, which reveal and deconstruct the imbalance of thoughts by thwarting the established order and by lifting the dissimulation of the imagination. “It is essential to know from where you are speaking in order to imagine where you want to go and to give yourself the means to exist” arguing about the enlightenment of individuals in their society and positions in a global changing world.

Her artworks have been exhibited at Lahore Biennale (2020), Cairo Biennale (2019), La Biennale Di Venezia Algerian Pavilion (2019), BISO Biennale of Sculpture at Ouagadougou (2019), Dakar Biennale (2018), Lagos Biennale (2017), Casablanca Biennale (2016), Addis FotoFest (2014) and in museums at MAXXI Museum Rome, MUSAC Museum Spain, CAAM Las Palmas, Torrance Art Museum USA; and included in public and private collections at Fondation Donwahi (Abidjan, Ivory Cost), FRAC Occitanie Fond Régional Art Contemporain Les Abattoirs (Toulouse, France), African Artists for Development (Paris, France).

Selected Artists

Amina Agueznay

Isaac Ato Jackson

Abdelkader Benchamma

Rachel Marsil

Collin Sekajugo

Prince Gyasi

Thandiwe Muriu

Hako Hankson

Artists 2023

  • A

    • Aassmaa Akhannouch
    • Abdelkader Benchamma
    • Abderrahim Yamou
    • Abdoulaye Konaté
    • Abdulrazaq Awofeso
    • Aboudia
    • Ahmed Kamel
    • Alberto Pitta
    • Alioune Diagne
    • Ambrose Rhapsody Murray
    • Amina Agueznay
    • Ana Silva
    • Audrey Lyall
  • B

    • Barthélémy Toguo
  • C

    • Caleb Kwarteng Prah
    • Collin Sekajugo
  • D

    • Daoud Aoulad-Syad
  • E

    • Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux
  • F

    • Fathi Hassan
    • Fatima Zohra Serri
  • G

    • Girma Berta
    • Gopal Dagnogo
  • H

    • Hako Hankson
    • Hicham Benohoud
    • Hicham Gardaf
    • Hyacinthe Ouattara
  • I

    • Ibrahim Ballo
    • Isaac Ato Jackson
    • Ismail Zaidy
  • J

    • Joana Choumali
    • Johanna Mirabel
    • Justin Ebanda
  • K

    • Kehinde Wiley
  • M

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    • Mahi Binebine
    • Mariam Abouzid Souali
    • Maya-Inès Touam
    • Mo Baala
    • Mouna Saboni
    • Mous Lamrabat
    • Moustapha Baidi Oumarou
  • N

    • Nadia Taquary
    • Nicolas Lambelet Coleman
    • Nú Barreto
  • O

    • Omar Ba
  • P

    • Prince Gyasi
  • R

    • Rachel Marsil
    • Reggie Khumalo
  • S

    • Seydou Keïta
    • Siriki Ky
    • Soly Cissé
  • T

    • Thandiwe Muriu
  • V

    • Victor Fidelis
  • Y

    • Yo-Yo Gonthier
    • Youssef Nabil

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