Statement

Depuis quelques temps, je travaille sur des correspondances issues de lettres 
avec trois artistes. Visuellement ces échanges créent des paysages diffractés 
comme des cartes rapiécées (dessins, photos, écritures). Ce matériau hirsute 
crible ma pratique d’impression, et me fait voyager en imagination. 
Cet espace de l'instant est fait du jeu des lettres. Ensuite, je procède par collage, sans méthode, sans inventaire, je pourrais dire dévier par glissements de techniques, et avancer ainsi dans le chaos de ce que je tente de saisir. 
Mes études de latin et de grec m'ont donné un attrait pour l’étymologie, et c'est ici que l’étymologie devient un lien dans cet épistolaire;  mes images se succèdent comme des mots évidés, des racines en miettes qui s’enchevêtrent. Je rapièce. Since 2019, I've been working on my epistolary "travellings" in the third space a diffracted lanscape as a result. This shaggy poetic material alters my daily times. This space of the moment is the play of letters between myself and another. But it's also the plastic manipulations that follow the words.
I proceed by collage, I work without method, without inventory,I deviate by slippage of technique and I thus advance in the chaos of what I try to seize.
My studies of Latin and Greek had given me an attracion for etymology, and it's here that it becomes a link in this epistolary; my images follow one another like hollowed-out words, I patch together a diffracted language. Through Ireland, and encounters, my Brussels "emporte pièce" side returns, sending me bac to ways of proceeding "en esprit d'escalier". Since 2019, experimental printing has been helping me realize these embedded images.
Lately, I have been working with a videast on an intertwined medium; spirulina and experimental film, from the inside out, we manipulate recurring common themes.

bio


        
1996 un Ba en graphisme à l'Institut Saint Luc et Ma à l’Académie des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles m'ont permis de travailler dans le domaine du dessin animé à Londres et au Luxembourg. De retour à Bruxelles, j'ai participé à une exposition interactive sur les philosophes et scientifiques du moyen âge islamique.
Cette expérience déterminante, qui a développé ma connaissance des racines de la culture musulmane et de son impact sur la civilisation occidentale, m'a amenée à monter des projets socio-artistiques pour diverses institutions de cette ville multiculturelle dans le cadre du centre Omar Khayam..
En 2015, avec le collectif cargo, nous avons organisé deux grands ateliers avec des migrants grâce à un financement européen. En 2017,
Cette mêmem année, une résidence au Vanuatu a provoqué un twist qui m'a emmené en Irlande pour développer des compétences en gravure à l'atelier de Belfast Printworkshop. C'était un nouveau chapitre dans ma visée créative : le " voyage " épistolaire dans un troisième espace.
À Dublin en 2021, j'ai participé à l'exposition Silence. Elle a donné lieu à d'autres expositions comme celle du Festival du dessin de Tournai en 2022 et en 2023 à la Passenger Gallery.
2024 est engagée à la fois dans un processus solo et collectif de traversée des paysages.
 
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A BA in Graphic Design from Saint Luc Institute led to Cartoon work in London/ Luxembourg.
Returning to Brussels to par4cipate in an interac4ve show on historical Arab figures.This pivotal experience which developed my knowledge of respect for the roots of Muslim culture and
its impact on western civilisation led to se:ng up socio-artistic projects for various institutions in this multicultural city.
A return to study in 2012 resulted in a Masters in drawing from the Académie des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles.
There was formed the collective Cargo which made a variety of projects:in Bruxelles and abroad.
In 2015 we had two major workshops with migrants with European funding. Then I was involved in a intercultural workshop with the Cisp human rights organisation in Algeria towards local artists.

In 2017 A fine art residency in Vanuatu caused a shin which took me to Ireland to develop printmaking skills at Belfast Print workshop.
It was a new chapter in my creative view: the epistolary ‘travelling’ in the third space. In Dublin in 2021, I was part of the Silence exhibition. It had been leading to other exhibitioat the Festival du Dessin de Tournai in 2022 and in 2023 at Passenger Gallery.

2024 is engaged both with a solo and collective process crossing sceneries.


CV Resume

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Exhibitions

2024 Guest house Cork - improvisation in scenaries or the end of
2023 “Embrasure”  collective cargo in Passenger gallery, Bruxelles, BE
2022 L'art en Ville, at Les Inattendues gallery Tournai, BE
2021 Halloween ground 0 at the Guest house, Cork, IR
2021 "SILENCE" exhibition Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin, IR
2019 "On the Brink", La Chambre Gallery, Brussels, BE
2019 "At the edge, the bird's perch" duo with Shira Horesh Lin Gallery, BE
2017 "Specimen", Architecture Space La Cambre/ Horta, Brussels, BE
2016 "Allusions", Albert Garnier Gallery, Sainte-Anastasie-sur-Issole, FR
2015 "Precipitates and bodies", Chapelle St-Jean, La Garde-Freinet, FR
2015 "Magical journey of a certain zero", Festival Racont'art, Mostaganem, ALG
2014 "Cargo II", "Sinon l'atelier", Brussels, BE
2013 "Cargo I", "Sinon l'atelier", Brussels, BE
2011 "Magic Journey of a Certain Zero", Museum of Folklore and Lace, Brussels, BE
2011 Chamarande Gallery, Brussels, BE

Formations-studies(Artistic residencies)

2012 - 2016 MA Drawing, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, BE
1992 - 1996 BA Graphic Design, Institut Saint-Luc, Brussels, BE
2023 Cork Print Studio - Belfast PrintWorkshop (collective work with Linda Barbour)
2022 Zea Mays studio, Northampton, US
2021 Roadbook Residency, Innicarra, IR
2020 -2022 La Chambre Galery "Citizen's journey" workshops about the intercultural citizenship, Brussel,
2019-2020 BPW, Belfast, IRL
2019 Aq Tushetii, Omalo, GEORgia 
2019 Seacourt Print Workshop, Bangor, IRL2018 PAF, Performing Arts Forum (collective writing "Broken Dictionary", St Erme, FR
2017 Suzanne Bastien Foundation (experience of landscape, place and space),Port Vila, VU
2015-2016 Villa Abd-el-Tif [Algerian Agency for Cultural Radiation] ("The 7 Faces
Algeria"), Algiers,


Socio-culturel path
  • 2020 - 2024 Intercultural Citizenship module (Integration pathway (Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles) "Cartographie des valeurs" at the Chambre de la culture belgo-méditerranéenne, Brussels, BE
  • 2022 “l’Objet migrateur” Design of a creative manual for teachers of foreign languages and cultures OLC (Walloon Federation Brussels) BE
  • 2015 - 2018 Project manager in the socio-cultural space at the Omar Khayam Cultural Center, Brussels, BE
  • 2018 Design & organization of the workshop "Next Generation, Please! ", BOZAR Festival, Bôzar Museum of Brussels, Brussels, BE
  • 2016 - 2018 Design & organization of "Odyssey of Freedoms", a workshop for mid-grants on citizenship in the framework of the European project AMIF in collaboration with the City of Brussels and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, Brussels, BE.
  • 2016 Design & organization of workshops with people suffering from Alzheimers at the King Baudouin Residence "enigma of place", a project in relation with high school students of the Bischoffsheim Institute, Brussels, BE
  • 2015 - 2018 Design & organization of "Odyssey of Freedoms", a project in the framework of "Vivre Ensemble" (French Community Commission)& Wiels & Brass, Brussels, BE
  • 2015 - 2016 Design & organization of "The Magic Journey of a Certain Zero", a project on multicultural citizenship in partnership with the CISP's "Building Bridges Not Walls" project in Algeria and in the pursuit of human rights in Algeria. ALG
  • 2015 Cycle "Enclos/Oasis" of nine philosophical/artistic conferences and an exhibition, in collaboration with the artistic collective Terra Mentis, Brussels, BE
  • 2017 Creation of the art collective "Cargo-Sinon", questioning migration, drawing and translation, Brussels
  • 2003 - 2011 Conception & organization of the intercultural citizen project for the general public "Magical journey from a certain zero". BE
  • 1999 - 2003 Iconography and cartoon design in Oniria Picture, Luxembourg, LU 
  • 1998 graphic design (Syzygy.co.uk), iconography, UK
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