"As a child, I was always chasing my shadows. Years later, when I realised that my shadow changes according to the time of day and the seasons, light became my obsession, and drawing with light became my way of looking at life."
Dalel Tangour
Born in Nabeul, Tunisia
Lives and works in Hammamet, Tunisia
Dalel Tangour is a committed artist and one of the first women photographers in Tunisia.
A graduate of the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Tunis and a university lecturer, she has been sharing her passion for several years with her students in Tunisia and France.
An observer of the world and attentive to the Other, her lens captures the outside world, where she takes a back seat to better reveal the subject being photographed.
Her photographs are often the subject of installations that set the scene. She explores real-life situations by investigating places, capturing both the everyday and the unusual. Whether in the intimacy of interiors, in the heart of the medina or in the surrounding open space, her photos capture the traces of gestures of hope or situations of desolation, while focusing on detail and exuding a certain visual serenity.
Dalel Tangour's photographic work is an open testimony to the difficulties of the present and the weight of the past, in a subtle interplay of black and white contrasts that bring the intensity of light to life.
This artistic approach leaves the viewer free to interpret the image as they wish.
She has exhibited in group shows at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (2018), the History Library in Madrid (2017), SWAB in Barcelona (2016), the Mittelmeer Biennale in Cologne, Germany (2012, 2010, 2008), at the Mamia Bretesche Gallery as part of the Month of Photography in Paris, at the Musée de l'espace privé Landowski in Boulogne Billancourt in France, at the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Algiers (2008) and at the Musée d'Art in Bamako in Mali (2007).
Solo exhibitions in Tunisia include: Bchira Art Center in Tunis (2015), La Boite in Tunis (2014), Institut Français de Tunisie in Sfax (2014).
Her work appears in the book by Paul Ardenne and Pierre-Noël Denieuil: "La Boîte 2007-2017: 10 ans d'expérimentation artistique au sein d'une entreprise en Tunisie.