PARALLEL PROGRAM / Meriem Bouderbala, Regard sur corps de femme

Opening: Wednesday February 29, 18:30
Location: La Perla, Hivernage

The artwork represented by Meriem Bouderbala in this exhibition are a legacy and symbolism of traditional Arabic poetry. Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry sneak into draped in white silhouettes without revealing flesh. Is there a story of codified bans on representation of the body or does he read between the lines of poetry or arabesques?

In the work of Meriam Bouderbala, the body is omnipresent. In some cases, it recalls images of women between the dead and the living, as generated by the vacuum, “my background is an attempt to escape an alternative that I refuse. I find this spot where the human figure is both flesh and sign. ”
The artist translates his “look at woman’s body” by two sets, the first is that of the Bedouin, which evoke the intimacy of the body while transgressing norms and the various aesthetic conformity. Here the body and cloth intertwine and reveal a variety of topics such as critical questioning of Orientalism and particularly fantasies projected on the Eastern woman and her condition in the Arab world.

Through the second series, entitled “Female palimpsest” Bouderbala removed the body, leaving only the evanescent silhouettes with flowing contours. The artist accentuates the image of women to fragmented by ghost of a poem by Mahmoud Darwish entitled” In this land, in the shadow of words”. The desired appearance is like a game of shimmering fragmented our identities. Meriam Bouderbala used the veil to hide the flesh. The woman’s body slips away and turns into a “sacred thing”. The veil is a barrier between us and others, revealing that creates a link between the inside – or outside or hidden and the visible: a process influenced by Sufi philosophy.

Exhibition organized by Le Violon Bleu, Tunis