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We are delighted to present Monia Ben Hamouda's upcoming solo exhibition Ya'aburnee - يقبرني, curated by Anissa Touati, opening this month, Tuesday 25 February 2025 at 5PM."‘𝙔𝙖'𝙖𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙚’ 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚."
𝐘𝐚'𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐞 - يقبرني
Monia Ben Hamouda's exhibition ‘Ya'aburnee’ at Galerie Selma Feriani in Tunis is titled after the Arabic concept that translates as ‘you bury me’, reflecting the selfless wish for a loved one to outlive oneself. Love and sacrifice, omnipresent in the exhibition, explore the complex ideas of language, history and understanding through an installation that spans the three floors of the gallery, combining painting, sculpture and sound pieces, blurring our relationship with space. These recordings from two mosques create a haunting landscape that blends religious calls to prayer with urgent public announcements. It transforms the familiar sounds of the call to prayer into an alarming melody, reflecting a complex interplay between spirituality and the pressing need for information in times of crisis. The installation evokes discomfort and awareness, as the low vibrations resonate throughout the gallery. Ben Hamouda aims to capture the distinct auditory landscape of Arabic countries, emphasizing how these sounds shape cultural identity and perception. The result is a powerful commentary on the nature of communication and the emotional burden carried by these calls in our troubled area.
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭: 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐚
Born in Milan in 1991
Ben Hamouda is a Tunisian-Italian visual artist, working between al-Qayrawan and Milan. Following the belief that each individual is inextricably connected to their family tree and the psychological universe of their ancestors, she attempts to master her influences in a contemporary and constantly changing landscape. Born into a Muslim community as the daughter of an Islamic calligrapher, she 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.
She won the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2024 and earned a BFA at Brera Academy of Fine Art in Milan.
She was awarded with the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Grant (2024), the Fondazione Merz Prize (2024), the Museion Audience Award (2024), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2022), the Italian Council for Contemporary Art (2023; 2024).
Her work is featured in public collections such: MAXXI, Rome; FRAC Bretagne, Rennes; Museion, Bozen; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; MACRO, Rome; FRAC Corsica, Corse.
𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲: 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢
As a transnational independent curator and researcher, Anissa Touati has been working between the West and the “Global South”. She is currently a researcher at Brown University, USA where she develops the notion of 'Entangled Legacies of Space'. Most recently, she served as guest curator 2023-2024 of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, curator-at-large of Paris Internationale from 2020-2023 and has been the artistic director of Contemporary Istanbul from 2018-2019. Over the past decade, she has taken on the role of artistic director at several international locations, advised, curated or co-curated exhibitions and projects in many different countries including ARCO Madrid (Spain), Chalet Society (France), Thalie Foundation (Belgium), BEMA Museum (Lebanon), Mughal Museum (India), Lagos Biennial (Nigeria), Broad Museum (USA) amongst others. Anissa Touati has lectured at numerous places such as MIT (Boston), Harvard GSD (Boston), University of Zürich (Switzerland) amongst others and writes for exhibitions catalogs, art galleries or journals such as Flash Art, Apartamento.
Join us on Tuesday, 25 February for the exhibition opening, to meet the artist and share in the dialogue.
𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: Tuesday 25 February 2025
𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 5PM
𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 32 Rue Ibn Nafis, Z.I. Kheireddine, La Goulette, 2015, Tunis
𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: from 26 February to 19 April 2025
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Selma Feriani Gallery, برتقالي - Dsc, تونس, تونس,Kram, Tunis, Tunisia
