With “Until all is Color,” Grande Mosquée de Paris unveils a little-known part of Baya Mahieddine’s work: her still lifes, created between 1946 and 1998.
A sober and thoughtful exhibition that repositions the Algerian artist within the history of modernity while revealing the inner depth of her work.
In the Emir Abdelkader Hall, where filtered light highlights the carved woodwork, Baya Mahieddine’s paintings seem to breathe. Displayed in one of Paris’s most emblematic venues, these still lifes — fruits, flowers, instruments, birds — unfold like silent presences, ready to spring back into motion. “With Baya, nothing is motionless,” recalls the exhibition curator, Yasmine Azzi-Kohlhepp. “Her still lifes are, in fact, living forms.”
