Amina Zoubir participated in Domestic Systemic Pandemic with 'My Body is Not For Sale'. Two collages from her first solo exhibition in Sweden: Amina Zoubir Taking a Stance on Berber Queens at Södertälje konsthall. The collages will be displayed in the window of Detroit Gallery on Nov 23. 

"The collages deconstructs a collection of original colonial postcards by cutting them into small pieces to assemble them into new forms — revealing a fragility of its earlier eroticised concept. Her methods call to mind philosopher Gilles Deleuze understanding of “difference” and “repetition” (Deleuze, 1968), which assays a critique of representation. For him, every repetition brings something unique to occur. It is also what lays in between the difference of the repetition that accounts for change — for evolution, for creativity.

Amina Zoubir Taking a Stance on Berber Queens at Södertälje konsthall, showed the latest chapter in her ongoing exploration of female representation and women’s history in North Africa through colonial imagery and images of the Berber queens Tin Hinan (4th century), Kahina Dihya (7th century) and Lalla N’Soumer (1830-1863). Queens who ruled matriarchal societies in the Maghreb but whose history has been neglected in Algerian school education. Lalla N’Soumer, for instance, was an essential figure in the resistance movement fighting the early french colonial invasion. Tin Hinan walked across the Sahara desert to escape the Roman oppression. Kahina Dihya was decapitated due to her influential position while leading troops against the Arab invasion. So, what role can the imagery of Berber queens play today, and how have these images been inscribed in contemporary representations of female bodies, the artist asks herself."

Excerpts from: 'Power of Myth and Imagery' by Sara Rossling

Visual artist and videomaker, Amina Zoubir graduated with a Master of Theory and practice of contemporary art and new media from University Paris 8 (France) and a DESA Graphic design obtained in 2006 at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers (Algeria). Her artworks have been exhibited at La Biennale Di Venezia, Algerian Pavilion (2019), and other Biennales like BISO Sculpture at Ouagadougou, Cairo Biennale (2019), Dakar Biennale (2018), Lagos Biennale (2017) etc. 

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