Nadia Seboussi
In co-presentation with the Whippersnapper Gallery
Artist talk with Yaniya Lee: Thursday, Septemhttp://lelabo.ca/en/wp-admin/upload.phpber 3rd 2015, 6 – 7 PM
English whisper translation: Aurélie Lacouchie
Opening: Thursday, September 3rd 2015, 7 – 9 PM
Exhibition: from 3rd to 26th September 2015
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Location: WhipperSnapper Gallery
594b Dundas Street West Toronto ON M5T 1H5
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 1 – 7 PM
Il était une fois l’orient, 2013-2015, is the juxtaposition of stereotyped images from a fantasized orient. These images involve the representation of arabic or « oriental » women. It is a look back at the golden age of Egyptian cinema and a modest attempt at examining the place of the woman in this era and in the western imagery.
About the artist:
Nadia Seboussi is a Montreal-based artist of Algerian origin. She holds an electronics engineering diploma and worked for the Algerian Francophone newspaper in the culture section before immigrating to Canada. Having a self-taught visual arts practice, she undertook studies in Visual and Media Arts at the University of Quebec in Montreal and a complete a Bachelor in 2009 and a master’s degree in 2012. She has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards including Pierre Ayot Excellence Award in Visual and the merit scholarship Jacques Tonnancour for her academic career accomplishments. Other awards include the emerging Female price at the video festival in Montreal, GIV Price, StudioXX Prize and Fellowship for excellence at the UQÀM, Autodesk Excellence Scholarship. She is the recipient of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art 2013-2015. She was chosen in 2013 by the Faculty of Arts for the gold medal of the Governor General price. In 2014 she participated in the International Biennial of the Moving Image in Buenos Aires, Argentina and her work has been exhibited in France, Madrid, Cuba, Montreal, Mexico. She curated A panorama of video production of contemporary artists of Algeria and its Diaspora, 2001-2015, to be presented both at Dazibao in March 2015 and at the Biennial of Buenos Aires in November 2016. She is a lecturer at the University of Quebec in Montreal, UQÀM.
Le Labo, Francophone artist-run centre, is a hub in Torontoʼs media arts community that fosters and supports the creation of its member artists.
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