Three artists, a moroccan, a tunisian and an algerian, share their visión about art, women and her situation in North African countires in the group show ‘Cuerpos’, a word that resembles of a reivindication: that of making visible the identity of the arab woman, whose body is often covered, and even hidden to the eyes of their closest dearest. The first group show at Sabrina Amrani will gather the views of Amina Benbouchta (1963, Morocco); Nicène Kossentini (1976, Tunisia) and Zoulikha Bouabdellah (1977, Algeria)

1. ‘Cuerpos’
Benbouchta / Bouabdellah /
/ Kossentini
From next 29th february until 7th april, at Galería Sabrina Amrani
The next show at Sabrina Amrani art gallery speaks in feminine. Three
artists, a moroccan, a tunisian and an algerian, share their visión about
art, women and her situation in North African countires in the group
show ‘Cuerpos’, a word that resembles of a reivindication: that of
making visible the identity of the arab woman, whose body is often
covered, and even hidden to the eyes of their closest dearest.
The first group show at Sabrina Amrani will gather the views of Amina
Benbouchta (1963, Morocco); Nicène Kossentini (1976, Tunisia) and
Zoulikha Bouabdellah (1977, Algeria), that comes back to the gallery
after the success of her first show ‘Mirage’, where she reflected about
the wave of change in the arab world.

2. Zoulikha Boaubdellah spent her childhood discovering the funds of
the Argel Museum of Art, that was run by her mother. Scaping from the
civil war in their country, her family moved into France in 1993. The exile
is also present in her work, with a constant: the dialogue between the
West and the arab world. In ‘Cuerpos’, the algerian artist shows one of
her more celebrated artworks: Two Lovers – La Roue, in whiche she rein-
terprets one of the most recognizable elements of arab iconography:
calligraphy. However, there is no need to understand arab language to
comprehend the work, only to contemplate the word Love (Hobb, in
arabic) making love to the word Love. It is a calling of the loving senti-
ment, a sensation that does not know of limits of frontiers; and that the
arab poetry has captured during centuries confronting taboos and
prohibitions, in the same subtle manner that Zoulikha presents her
work.
‘Cuerpos’ follows its proposal through the works of Amina Benbou-
chta, that presents Down in the rabbit hole, her first aproximation to
photography. In her potos, she recreates scenes where the own artista
appears with her head covered, while sourrounded by oniric objects. In
this luxurious stages, beautifully decorated, with a violent elegance a
woman has became an object. Amina, until now focused on painting,
expresses in this proposal the position of the woman – specially in the
arab world – in current societies. As it happens to Carroll’s Alice in Won-
derland, Benbouchta’s woman is found lost between inside and outsi-
de, and continues her permanent search of her own identity.
At last, Nicène Kossentini, tunisian artist that will present a solo show
in september in the gallery, reflects about the transmission of the collec-
tive memory in the video Stories. In it, she recovers fragments of the
stories that her grandmather used to tell her before she died: legends
and stories that were transmimited from mather to daughter from gene-
ration to generation and that now is beggining to disappear in modern
arab societies.
Nicène also brings to Sabrina Amrani the photograpich series What the
water gave me, which titled has been voluntarily taken from the Frida

3. Khalo’s painting to designate the arrival to conciousness through the
introspective inmersion that this work represents, that is revealed
progressively transmitting this phenomenology of perception where
things affect our bodies in a purely aesthetic temporality.
The group show ‘Cuerpos’ participates in the I Festival Miradas de
Mujeres http://festivalmiradasdemujeres.com
OPENING
Wednesday, 29th february
Calle Madera, 23
20:00 h.
For more information:
Galería Sabrina Amrani
627 539 884
sabrina@sabrinaamrani.com
jal@sabrinaamrani.com
Madera 23. 28004 Madrid, Spain
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