DALILA DALLEAS BOUZAR

Bilingual French + English

12 x 17 cm / 32 pages / August 2023

isbn: 978-2-35137-349-1

Text: Gaël Teicher

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Co-published with Solidarité laïque

Born in Oran to Algerian parents, Dalila Dalléas Bouzar initially trained in biology before discovering painting at a workshop in Berlin. Her figurative style rejects the authority of overly clean drawing in favor of experimentation with color and contrasting light. From the political to the historical, the biological to the psychological, his work questions the powers of pictorial representation on several levels. Her obsession with painting bodies and faces reflects her consideration of portraiture as a means of investigating identity or critically expressing relationships of domination. She draws on Algerian memory to shape a history of violence to which her work responds, giving visibility to these wounded identities.