The Algerian artist is interested in the representation and appropriation of the female and male bodies through photographs influenced by the colonial period. The exhibition is based on photographs from archives and documents collected during the artist's research at the Museum am Rothenbaum (Markk) in Hamburg, Germany, and the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
Jana Caroline Reimer, curator of the Department of North Africa, West and Central Asia and Ancient Egypt at the Markk, points out that Amina Zoubir's reproductions show the extremely high number of women affected by this colonial appropriation of their bodies.
"What distinguishes the work of artist Amina Zoubir is her ability to deliberately deconstruct these difficult portraits, as well as the images and imagination they convey. The people portrayed are thus elevated to the same level as the subjects, breaking away from their original historical context to make them visible in a new way." - Yasmine Azzi-Kohlhepp, founder and director of Ayn Gallery.
Amina Zoubir has a degree in contemporary art theory from the Université Paris-8 and in graphic design from the École supérieure des beaux-arts d'Alger, and lives between the French and Algerian capitals.
Photo: The photographs in this exhibition are taken from archives and documents collected during the artist's research at the Museum am Rothenbaum (Markk) in Hamburg, Germany, and the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm, Sweden (photo supplied and obtained from the Arab News website).