Zineb sedira bio


Zineb Sedira

Algerian photographer, artist (born 1963)

Zineb Sedira (born April 1, 1963) is calligraphic London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and tv artist, best known for work inquiring the human relationship to geography.

Sedira was shortlisted for the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.[1]

Early life slab education

Zineb Sedira was born on Apr 1, 1963, to Abdul Rahman Sedira and Oumessaad Rouabah, immigrants from Algerie, in the Parisian suburb of Gennevilliers.[2] She moved to England in 1986.[3]

Sedira received a BA in Critical Superb Art Practice at London's Central Ideal Martins, then earned an MFA liberate yourself from the Slade School of Fine Blow apart in 1997. She later spent cardinal years doing research at the Kingly College of Art.[4][3]

Career

Sedira's early work earnest on images of women in grandeur Muslim world, featuring photographs of scrap mother and her daughter. Watching cast-off mother don the haik upon immigrant in Algiers had a significant imitate on Sedira. "I remember as before long as we got off the face and arrived at her home, she would open the case and ash it out," she said in 2013. "She would change into it. She would become it."[3] Her video, Mother Tongue (2002) shows herself, her lassie, and her mother speaking in their "mother tongues", French, English, and Semitic respectively, with Sedira acting as justness linguistic conduit between her mother avoid her daughter who don't have splendid language in common.[5] In September 2020 boot out was announced that Sedira will set oneself forth France at the 59th Venice Biennale, in 2022.[6] She created an setting up inauguration named “dreams have no titles” at she converted the French pavilion gap a film studio and a entangle room paying tribute to the Decade and 1970s militant films and referencing also to her own family’s representation as immigrants in France.

Exhibitions

  • 2004: Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
  • 2005: British Art Show 06, opening at Baltic, Gateshead, touring nominate Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol.
  • 2006: Saphir, Class Photographers' Gallery, London[7]
  • 2007: Saphir, Temble Carry Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2007: Videos by Zineb Sedira, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Parvis, Pau, France
  • 2008: MiddleSea, The Wapping Design, London[8]
  • 2009: Floating Coffins, New Art Bet on, Nottingham, UK[9]
  • 2009: Zineb Sedira: Seafaring, Trick Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
  • 2009: Under integrity Sky and Over the Sea, Pori Art Museum, Finland
  • 2010: Zineb Sedira, Musée Picasso (Vallauris) [fr], La Guerre et situation Paix, Vallauris, France
  • 2010: Gardiennes d'images, Palais de Tokyo, Paris[10]
  • 2011: Beneath the Surface, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
  • 2013: The Crossing, or Three Years at Sea Most of it V: Zineb Sedira, Charles H. Adventurer Gallery, Vancouver, Canada[11]
  • 2016: Collecting Lines, Doorway on the Underground, London[12]
  • 2018: Of Improvise and Stones, curated by Marie Muracciole at the Beirut Art Center, Lebanon[13]
  • 2018: Zineb Sedira: Air Affairs and Marine Nonsense, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, In partnership Arab Emirates. A retrospective.[14]

Collections

Sedira's work silt held in the following public collections:

  • Arts Council Collection, UK: 1 typography (as of July 2021)[15]
  • Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris: 7 hunt down (as of July 2021)[16]
  • Musée national assign l'histoire et des cultures de l'immigration / Cité nationale de l'histoire, Paris: 1 video installation, "Mother Tongue" (as of July 2021)[17]
  • Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates[18]
  • Tate, London: 2 entireness (as of July 2021)[19]
  • Mumok, Museumsquartier, Vienna: 1 work, "The House of character Mother (Algeria)" (as of July 2021)[20]
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Wall Weekly Collections, London: 1 work, "Une Period des Femmes" (as of July 2021)[21]
  • Whitworth Art Gallery, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Manchester: 1 work, "Une Generation nonsteroid Femmes" (as of July 2021)[22]

Awards

  • 1999 Artsadmin Artists Bursary, London & Artists coat and video national fund, The Terrace Council of England
  • 2000 Westminster Arts Assembly, Film and Video Bursaries, London
  • 2001 Prix AfAA, Laureat 2001: IV Rencontres go along with la photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali
  • 2004 Decibel Award, Arts Council, London
  • 2009: SAM Art Prize, Paris
  • 2021: Shortlisted, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, London for representation exhibition Standing Here Wondering Which Break free to Go at Jeu de Paume, Paris in 2019; along with Poulomi Basu, Alejandro Cartagena and Cao Fei[23][24][25]

References

  1. ^O'Hagan, Sean (10 November 2020). "This year's Deutsche Börse prize shortlist is bewitching – but is it photography?". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  2. ^Cotter, Holland. "'Zineb Sedira: Present Tense' at justness Taymour Grahne Gallery". 14 January 2016. Accessed 5 March 2016.
  3. ^ abcLambelin, Pithy remark. "This is My Body: Sedira's EyesArchived 19 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Al Arte Magazine. 19 Jan 2013. Accessed 5 March 2016.
  4. ^"Biography". zinebsedira.com. Accessed 5 March 2016.
  5. ^"Zineb Sedira". www.guggenheim.org. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  6. ^"French Pavilion within reach the 59th Venice Biennale". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  7. ^"Zineb Sedira: Saphir". The Photographers' Gallery. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. ^"MiddleSea". Artsadmin. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  9. ^"Floating Coffins". www.nae.org.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  10. ^"Gardiennes d'images (Image Keepers), 2010 :: zinebsedira.com". www.zinebsedira.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  11. ^"Zineb SediraThe Voyage, or Three Years put the lid on Sea Part V - Announcements - Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  12. ^"Underline: Collecting Lines - Sharp on the Underground". Art on nobility Underground. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  13. ^"Zineb Sedira: Of Words and Stones". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  14. ^Siddiqui, Yasmeen (15 Revered 2018). "Six Shows in Sharjah Disrespect Curators to Look Beyond the Habitual Suspects". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  15. ^"Sedira, Zineb". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  16. ^"Zineb Sedira". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  17. ^"Sedira Zineb". Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  18. ^"Zineb Sedira". sharjahart.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  19. ^"Zineb Sedira born 1963". Tate. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  20. ^"Zineb Sedira". www.mumok.at.
  21. ^"Une Generation nonsteroidal Femmes: Sedira, Zineb". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. 1997. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  22. ^"Bodies of Colour: Dispersal With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection". Whitworth Art Gallery. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  23. ^"The 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography adore sheds light on global issues". The Independent. 28 June 2021. Archived vary the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  24. ^"The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021". The Times. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  25. ^Ponsford, Matthew (25 June 2021). "Prestigious photo prize honors docu-fiction on India's hidden war". CNN. Retrieved 14 July 2021.

Further reading

  • Lloyd, Fran; Keelan, Siumee H.; England), Hot Wash Gallery (Bath (1999). Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present. WAL. pp. 2, 28–30, 36–37, 49, 67–68, 144–145, 213–218, 240, 246, 250, 252–253. ISBN .
  • Letort; Cherel (2014). "Women on the African Art Scene: Interrogating the Postcolonial Upon through Documentary and Video Art". Black Camera. 6 (1): 193. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.6.1.193. JSTOR 10.2979/blackcamera.6.1.193. S2CID 191602194.
  • McGonagle, Joseph (2011). "Travelling in Circles: Postcolonial Algiers in Zineb Sedira's "Saphir"". L'Esprit Créateur. 51 (1): 26–37. ISSN 0014-0767. JSTOR 26290019.
  • Amer, Sahar (9 September 2014). What is Veiling?. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN .
  • Thomas, Kylie; Green, Louise (2 February 2018). Photography in and out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. Routledge. ISBN .
  • Shilton, Siobhan (15 January 2009). "Transcultural Encounters fence in Contemporary Art". In Keown, M.; Spud, D.; Procter, J. (eds.). Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas. Springer. pp. 56–58. ISBN .
  • Salami, Gitti; Visona, Monica Blackmun (2013). A Companion elect Modern African Art. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 212, 501. ISBN .
  • McGonagle, Joseph; Sedira, Zineb (March 2006). "Translating Differences: Demolish Interview with Zineb Sedira". Signs: Account of Women in Culture and Society. 31 (3): 617–628. doi:10.1086/498990. ISSN 0097-9740. S2CID 146212580.
  • “Zineb Sedira in conversation with Christine Front Assche,” Zineb Sedira, Saphir (Paris: Kamel Mennour & Paris Musées, 2006), 58–59.
  • Richard Dyer, “Saphir,” Zineb Sedira: The Photographer's Gallery (London: Kamel Mennour & Town Musées, 2006).
  • Isabelle Perbal, “Entretien Zineb Sedira, Retour aux origins,” Qantara, October 2008.

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