"The complexity of individual bodily identity is The question, how do we construct our humanity? This is one of the questions that forms the bridges between my research and my work as an artist."
Amina Zoubir
Born in Algiers, Algeria
Lives and works between Paris and Algiers.
Amina Zoubir is a protean visual artist who lives and works between Paris and Algiers. She holds a Master's degree in the theory and practice of contemporary art and new media from the University of Paris 8 and a DESA in graphic design from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Alger in 2006. Her work has been exhibited at the Africa 2020 season with La clairière d'eza boto (2021), the Lahore Biennale in Pakistan (2020), the Venice Biennale, Algerian Pavilion (2019), and other Biennales in Cairo (2019), the Dakar Biennale (2018), the Lagos Biennale (2017), the Lagos Photo Festival (2017), the Casablanca Biennial (2016), Addis FotoFest (2014), the BY14 Biennial in Yakutsk, Russia (2014), Pontevedra Biennial (2008) and has taken part in group exhibitions in museums such as the MAXXI Museum, MUSAC, CAAM Las Palmas, Torrance Art Museum and various galleries on several continents.
Her installations, drawings, videos, sculptures, photographs and artworks are textual and contextual interventions on materials: wax, wood, metal and wall, revealing and deconstructing a behavioural allusion to the unconscious and imaginary of individuals, evolving in a predetermined space according to socio-cultural, ethno-psychic and political contexts.
Amina Zoubir was awarded the Varenne FIGRA France prize in 2013 with a special motion for her performances Take your place in A Summer in Algiers web documentary (2012, Algeria). Her work is part of public and private collections at the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE), Fondation Donwahi (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire), Markk Museum ( Hamburg, Germany), Etnografiska Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), FRAC Occitanie Fond Régional Art Contemporain Les Abattoirs (Toulouse, France), African Artists for Development (Paris, France).