Nidhal Chamekh: Nos visages | 2019

Nos visages (our faces) are drawn from French colonial propaganda portraits of Senegalese and Berber infantrymen. Unable to pin a name to all the faces, the montage connects contradictory half-faces among each other in order to incorporate them in another time-frame and new hybrid identities.

Gallery image: Nos Visages | 2019 | Ink and nails on paper — Nos Visages | 2019 | Ink and nails on paper

Gallery image: Nos Visages | 2019 | Ink and nails on paper | Installation view — Nos Visages | 2019 | Ink and nails on paper | Installation view

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.