Zoulikha Bouabdellah

lilia ben salah is pleased to present « Let’s Dance! », Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s second solo show at the gallery, from February 1st – March 23rd, 2024. Zoulikha Bouabdellah (1977, Moscow) is a multimedia artist whose work summons icons and dominant representations, especially those of female and male bodies, confronted with socio-political dynamics. This exhibition unveils a corpus of new paintings characterized by vivid color fields, lines, and frontal images of fragmented bodies and imaginary, symbolic forms. The aesthetics of the fragment is dear to Zoulikha Bouadbellah’s work and refers thus to the shattering of perception and canonical laws of representation. In her compositions, the body is “sublimated, mutilated, tattooed, experienced, desired, undressed, veiled: the body is poetry.”