Lydia Ourahmane, née à Saïda en 1992, est une artiste basée à Alger. Sa pratique explore les questions géopolitiques de notre temps en testant la perméabilité des frontières et l’état d’entre-deux. Son travail s’est ainsi construit à partir des histoires complexes du colonialisme, de la migration et de l’abstraction afin d’explorer poétiquement le present, le personnel et le politique.
Elle est diplômée de Goldsmiths University à London en 2014 et a exposé internationalement. Parmi ses expositions récentes, on peut mentionner: Solar Cry, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Homeless Souls, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Crude, Jameel Art Center, Dubai; Manifesta 12, Palermo; Jaou, Tunis; Droit du sang, Kunstverein München, Munich; 2018 New Museum Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York; The You In Us, Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Lydia Ourahmane, (b.1992, Saïda) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Algiers. Her research-driven practice explores major geopolitical issues of our time testing the permeability of boundaries and the state of being in-between. Her work in recent years has built on complex histories of colonialism, migration and abstraction in a poetic exploration of the present, the personal and the political.
She graduated from Goldsmiths University of London in 2014 and has exhibited internationally. Recent exhibitions include: Solar Cry, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Homeless Souls, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Crude, Jameel Art Center, Dubai; Manifesta 12, Palermo; Jaou, Tunis; Droit du sang, Kunstverein München, Munich; 2018 New Museum Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York; The You In Us, Chisenhale Gallery, London.