Maya-Inès TOUAM
Maya-Inès Touam, artist photographer born in France of two Algerian parents, has always stretched her eyes and her curiosity on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea.
Graduated in 2013 of the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, this young artist questions in her visual creations the feminine power in the Arab world and our representations of Arab-Muslim societies.
During her first residency at Jardin Rouge she started a photographic series « Ready Made », in the continuity of a work of still lifes. Drawing inspiration from 17th-century Flemish aesthetics, Maya-Inès Touam creates contemporary compositions based on traditional, but also more modern, Moroccan handicrafts. Like a mirror of Moroccan society today, these still lifes play with our imagination by diverting objects from their original meaning or by mixing antagonistic artifacts.
(Exhibition selection)
Personal exhibitions
2018
Des Rives; Ready Made, Lcc Program, Casablanca, Maroc
2016
Révéler l’étoffe; exposition personnelle-conférence, Fuller University, Los Angeles, Usa
Révéler l’étoffe, Alger- Oran OZANEAUX Artspace, New York, Usa
Révéler l’étoffe, Oran, Galerie Myriam Bouagal, Paris, France
Collective exhibition
2018
Octobre, exposition Seen Art Gallery, Alger, Algerie
Les nuits photographiques, Essaouira, Maroc
Inner Space/Outer Space; RIU, Rimini, Italie
Fotohaus; Voies-Off, rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Kerkennah_01 festival de photographie, Kerkennah, Tunisie
Un oeil sur le monde arabe; Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France
Paris Secret(s); 104Paris, Paris, France
Shelves, Hangers, desks; Le coeurParis, Paris, France
2017
Arkane-Afrika, 3 ème édition, Casablanca, Maroc
Biennale mediteranéenne d’art contemporain, Oran, Algerie
Bourse du talent #67 Révéler l’étoffe; Maison de la photographie, Lilles, France
Scholarships and awards
Résidence Arkan; Casablanca, Maroc en 2015 et 2017
Sélectionnée à la Bourse du talent #67 Mode
Sélectionnée pour PhotoMed via Lensculture
