" Exploring human relationships in all their complexity through performance, photography and video, my artistic work is an intersectional aesthetic and political engagement with minority mobilisations. This approach allows me to capture the tensions inherent in these relationships, while at the same time deconstructing stereotypes and highlighting invisible subjectivities within a transcultural narrative space."
Halida Boughriet
Born in Lens, France
Lives and works in Choisy le Roi , France
Halida Boughriet, a French and Algerian artist graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, also participated in an exchange program in cinematography at the School of Visual Arts in New York until 2005. Engaged in an interdisciplinary approach, she explores the interstices between reality and fiction through performance, video, and photography. Her work addresses aesthetic, social, and political themes, shedding light on the complexities of human relationships. Halida Boughriet uses the body as an instrument of poetic experimentation and dedicates her research to deconstructing stereotypes, with the aim of making visible the subjectivities that have been historically underrepresented in visual culture. Through her practice, she seeks to provide a critical perspective on the writing of history and the formation of memory, particularly focusing on the invisibilized.
Her works have been exhibited in prestigious institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, the Musée d’Art Moderne d’Alger, and the Hood Museum in the United States. Boughriet has participated in significant events, including the exhibition Elles@centrepompidou (2010), the Algiers Contemporary Art Festival (2011), and several editions at the Institut du Monde Arabe (2012, 2019, 2022). She was also present at the Dakar International Biennale (2014) and the Documenta 14 radio program (2017). In 2018, she exhibited in «Persona Grata» at the National Museum of the History of Immigration and participated in the first Rabat Biennale dedicated to women artists in 2019. More recently, she was featured in the exhibition «Picasso & Les Femmes d’Alger» at the Berggruen Museum in Berlin and is currently part of the exhibition «Faits divers» at MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine.