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Nicene Kossentini

  • Skill Category: Art Legend
  • Present Address: Paris, France
  • Country: Tunisia
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Biography

Nicène Kossentini is a tunisian artist, living and working in Tunis, Tunisia and Paris, France Born in Tunis, 1976. She studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Tunis, at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg and at the Sorbonne University in Paris. During the first edition of the International Digital Media in France, she was interned at the Studio National des Arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy and at l’École de l’Image Les Gobelins. Currently, she is assistant professor of experimental cinema at the University of Tunis. Nicène works have been shown all over the world in art galleries, fairs and institutions such as Art Dubai, Marrakech Art Fair, Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), Museum of Boulogne Billancourt (France), National Museum of Carthague (Tunisia), Museum of Contemporary art of Algiers (Algeria), Bamako Biennale, Alexandria Biennale, Tunis Biennale and Thessaloniki Biennale. Her work is present in prominent public collections such as The British Museum, Kamel Lazaar Foundation or the Museum of Modern Art in Tunis, Tunisia. Mindful of her heritage and past, Nicène Kossentini seeks to uncover the lost links and buried truths of its culture and its origins. Her work thus addresses concerns of Tunisian society which have to live with a memory that tends to freeze, to flaten and become lost. In her videos, Kossentini captures, picture by picture, the slow transformation of people and things, to reveal intimate places and bodies. Each work is an invitation to enter into symbiosis with an uncertain and close living space. She creates singular atmospheres with minimalist escenographies, highlighting contrasts in black and white and semi visible areas. Her videos capture sights and faces about to extinct, hipnotizing the viewer’s look that is sustained in wait for an inminent event. The deliberate slow movement of the camera restores the phenomenological dimension of time to better suggest the sensation of becoming a strangely enigmatic place. In her recent videos, the artist pursues the uncertainty of the look on the viewer against his vision habits and prejudices, placing off the camera what could be a subject. She raises the problem of identity and its elusive landmark.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

Exhibitions: 2020 – Memorising. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain; 2019 – I remember the recommendations of Mr. President. Selma Feriani Gallery. Tunis, Tunisia; 2017 – They abused her by saying,2012. Lateral Velázquez, Sabrina Amrani courtesy. Madrid, Spain; 2016 – Fugitive.Casa Árabe Córdoba. Córdoba, Spain; 2016 – Fugitive.Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain; 2015 – Dispersal. Muratcentoventidue. Bari, Italy; 2014 – The Flight of the Butterfly or the Myth of Icarus Revisited. Curated by Christine Buci-Glucksmann. Selma Feriani Gallery. Tunis, Tunisia.

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