Lounis Baouche
In residence at Triangle-Asterides from May 2 to 31, 2023, then at the Cité Internationale des Arts from May 31 to July 31, 2023, as part of the residency program for Algerian artists designed in collaboration between the Cité Internationale des arts, Friche la Belle de Mai and the Camargo Foundation, with the support of the Ministry of Culture.
Born in 1994. A graduate of the Azazga Regional School of Fine Arts, he lives and works in Béjaïa (Algeria).
In his work, Baouche plays with dystopian concepts that he merges with the power dynamics that govern the human relationships, mainly those of authority, oppression and resistance. He pays particular attention to all forms of collective imagination and the elements that shape them, dissecting the key actors and the archetypes that influence their construction. These archetypes are often represented in his work in the form of naive characters, sometimes as tattered bodies placed on plaster backgrounds. For Lounis Baouche, it is necessary not only a form, but also colors and archaic models like those found in the remains of ancestral civilizations, such as cave paintings, sculptures, ceramics and other kinds of evocative remains to both ephemeral and constancy. His pieces are created in performative and conscious gestures, while being aware that they are ultimately doomed to collapse and transform into vestiges of posterity, His work is multidisciplinary and includes painting, drawing, ceramics and installation.
About the residency program for Algerian artists designed in collaboration between the Cité internationale des arts, Friche la Belle de Mai and the Camargo Foundation, with the support of the Ministry of Culture.
Created in 2022 at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, following the delivery of the Stora report and as part of the implementation of the recommendations aimed at appeasing Franco-Algerian memories, this program of cross residencies, creation and research, is aimed at visual artists of Algerian nationality, working and residing in Algeria.
The winners of the program benefit for three months from a research residency between the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and the Friche la Belle de May in Marseille in collaboration with Triangle - Astérides, contemporary art center of national interest, for professional and artistic support, a living grant, support for transport costs during the residency and ‘aid for production.