Karima El Karmoudi

Born in 1992 (FR), lives and works in Nice (FR).

Karima El Karmoudi is a young visual artist who graduated from Villa Arson and lives and works in Nice. Interested in storytelling and its transmission in our society, she often reflects on “poor” aesthetics using digital images, posters, postcards or family photographs. She captures personal and political history in materials, visual and sound archives, then transforms them into critical narratives.

Newspaper and magazine pages, old posters, photograms from films, postcards, slides, photographs, stories and oral histories handed down by her family are all fragments of reality gleaned and archived by Karima El Karmoudi. Blending fiction, mythology and reality, the critical narratives she imagines from her collection of visual and sound materials constitute new rituals and resonate with a decolonial generation echoed in her artistic and theoretical practice. Manipulated, transformed and integrated into installations, photographs and drawings, the intimately and politically charged elements Karima El Karmourdi gathers combine missing childhood memories, Amazigh culture, transmission, family history and collaboration, and a critique of the exotic imaginary (Camille Ramanana Rahary).