Ghyzlène Boukaïla
As part of the Baya residency program for artists based in Algeria, in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts, Friche la Belle de Mai, and the French Institute of Algeria.
Born in Algiers in 1993, Ghyzlène Boukaïla is a visual artist whose practice spans cinema, installation, and sculpture.
Through cinematic and immersive dispositifs, her work explores the porous boundaries between reality and fiction. Her films often extend into sculptural environments that fragment narrative structures and open up speculative spaces. Her research focuses on liminal territories, often described as “non-places,” which in her work become active sites of memory, resistance, and transformation. A graduate of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, her work has been presented at the Jaou Contemporary Art Biennial in Tunis, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, the Tampere Film Festival in Finland, and 100% Villette in Paris. She will join the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 2027.
Her current project, Inner Sea Desire (working title), approaches the Mediterranean as a space of passage, fiction, and resistance. The project examines the sea as a political, sensory, and mythological territory.
