Nidhal Chamekh: Drones | 2019

A series of drawing on 19th century lithographs which paved the way for several colonization campaigns. The addition of war drones’ images produces updated representations of theses “lost paradises”.

Gallery image: Drones | 2019 | Series of 12 drawings. Ink and gouache on 19th century lithographs. — Drones | 2019 | Series of 12 drawings. Ink and gouache on 19th century lithographs.

biography

Nidhal Chamekh

Born in 1985, Dahmani, Tunisia.
Lives and works between Paris and Tunis.

Nidhal Chamekh is a visual artist and a painter. He studied in the Fine Arts school of Tunis and that of Paris and carries out his doctoral research at the Sorbonne. The popular districts of Tunis where he grew up and the persecution of his militant family are to have a deep impact on his art. He began exhibiting his work at the age of 12, in Tunisia, and later in France and other European countries. His plastic research unfolds around the fragmented forms of reality and its possible languages. In his work, the figurative element remains clearly present but the subject is often blurry or almost absent.