Monia Ben Hamouda

Dust (Study for Blindness, Blossom and Desertification), 2023

Archival Pigment Print on Hahnmühle Photorag 308

image size: 41 × 30 cm

paper size: 43.2 × 32.2 cm

Edition of 30 plus IV AP

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Minimum donation price: 350 euro

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Based on an original drawing created by Monia Ben Hamouda, “Dust (Study for Blindness,Blossom and Desertification)” now becomes a special solidarity edition.

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Monia Ben Hamouda (1991, Milan, Italy) lives and works between al-Qayrawan (Tunisia) and Milan. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Previous positions include a visiting professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden and a seat in the jury at Filmmaker Festival, Milan.

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Following the belief that each individual is inextricably connected to their family tree and the psychological universe of their ancestors, Ben Hamouda attempts to master her influences in a contemporary and constantly changing landscape. Born into a Muslim community as the daughter of an Islamic calligrapher, Ben Hamouda navigates and confronts her generational heritage through what she calls a shamanic process – creating works that act as gestural exorcisms of the expectations placed upon her by tradition and the politicized present, drawing their power from the urgency of expression. Her visual language, which translates into a broad range of formal approaches, is steeped in cultural-religious symbology and rituals.