Zineb Sedira

Zineb Sedira is a London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and video artist, best known for work exploring the human relationship to geography.

Zineb Sedira
Born1963
Paris, France
Education
Known forPhotography and video
MovementModernism
AwardsSAM Art Prize, Decibel Award
Websitezinebsedira.com

Early life and education

Zineb Sedira was born in 1963 in the Parisian suburb of Gennevilliers; her parents were immigrants from Algeria.[1] She moved to England in 1986.[2]

Sedira received a BA in Critical Fine Art Practice at London's Central Saint Martins, then earned an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1997. She later spent five years doing research at the Royal College of Art.[3][2]

Career

Zineb Sedira's early work focused on images of women in the Muslim world, featuring photographs of her mother and her daughter. Watching her mother don the haik upon arrival in Algiers had a significant impact on Sedira. "I remember as soon as we got off the plane and arrived at her home, she would open the case and put it out," she said in 2013. "She would change into it. She would become it."[2] Her video, Mother Tongue (2002) shows herself, her daughter, and her mother speaking in their "mother tongues", French, Arabic, and English respectively, with Sedira acting as the linguistic conduit between her mother and her daughter who don't have a language in common.[4] In September 2020 it was announced that Sedira will represent France at the 59th Venice Biennale, in 2022.[5]

Work

Major exhibitions
  • 2003: Zineb Sedira, Galleria Sogospatty, Rome, Italy
  • 2004: Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
  • 2005: British Art Show 06, opening at Baltic, Gateshead, touring to Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol.
  • 2005: Zineb Sedira, OneTwenty Gallery, Gent, Belgium and at Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • 2006: Saphir, The Photographers' Gallery, London[6]
  • 2007: Saphir, Temble Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2007: Videos by Zineb Sedira, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Parvis, Pau, France
  • 2008: MiddleSea, The Wapping Project, London[7]
  • 2009: Floating Coffins, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK[8]
  • 2009: Zineb Sedira: Seafaring, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
  • 2009: Under the Sky and Over the Sea, Pori Museum, Finland
  • 2010: Zineb Sedira, Musée National Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France
  • 2010: Gardiennes d'images, Palais de Tokyo, Paris[9]
  • 2011: Beneath the Surface, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
  • 2013: The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part V: Zineb Sedira, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada[10]
  • 2014: Disenchanted Matters, Plutschow, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2015: Zineb Sedira : Present Tense, Taymour Ghrane Gallery, NYC, USA
  • 2016: Collecting Lines, Art On the Underground, London, UK[11]
  • 2017: Line of Flight, Kulte Gallery & Editions, Rabat, Morocco
  • 2018: Of Words and Stones, curated by Marie Muracciole at the Beirut Art Center, Lebanon[12]

Public collections
  • Arts Council England , London
  • Centre national des arts plastiques, ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris
  • Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
  • Collection d'Isabelle et Jean-Conrad Lemaître
  • Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt
  • Ernst & Young, Paris
  • Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la Ville de Paris
  • FRAC Alsace, Sélestat
  • FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseilles
  • Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums, Glasgow
  • Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis
  • Musée d'art contemporain, Marseille [MAC]
  • Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
  • Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • Musée national de l'histoire et des cultures de l'immigration / Cité nationale de l'histoire, Paris
  • Neuflize Vie, Paris
  • SACEM, Paris
  • SAM Art Projects, Paris
  • Sharjah Art Museum Collection, Sharjah
  • Tate collection, London
  • The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University
  • The mumok - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien Collection, Vienna
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, London
  • Whitworth Art Gallery, Contemporary Wall Paper Collections, Manchester
  • Wolverhampton Arts and Museums, Wolverhampton

Awards and nominations
  • 1999 Artsadmin Artists Bursary, London & Artists film and video national fund, The Arts Council of England
  • 2000 Westminster Arts Council, Film and Video Bursaries, London
  • 2001 Prix AfAA, Laureat 2001: IV Rencontres de la photographie africaine, Bamako 2001, Mali
  • 2004 Decibel Award, Arts Council, London
  • 2009: SAM Art Prize, Paris

References
  1. Cotter, Holland. "'Zineb Sedira: Present Tense' at the Taymour Grahne Gallery". 14 January 2016. Accessed 5 March 2016.
  2. Lambelin, Joke. "This is My Body: Sedira's Eyes. Al Arte Magazine. 19 January 2013. Accessed 5 March 2016.
  3. "Biography". zinebsedira.com. Accessed 5 March 2016.
  4. "Zineb Sedira". www.guggenheim.org. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. "French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  6. "Zineb Sedira: Saphir". The Photographers' Gallery. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  7. "MiddleSea". Artsadmin. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. "Floating Coffins". www.nae.org.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  9. "Gardiennes d'images (Image Keepers), 2010 :: zinebsedira.com". www.zinebsedira.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  10. "Zineb SediraThe Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part V - Announcements - Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  11. "Underline: Collecting Lines - Art on the Underground". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  12. "Zineb Sedira: Of Words and Stones". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.

Further reading
  • Lloyd, Fran; Keelan, Siumee H.; England), Hot Bath Gallery (Bath (1999). Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present. WAL. pp. 2, 28–30, 36–37, 49, 67–68, 144–145, 213–218, 240, 246, 250, 252–253. ISBN 978-1-902770-00-0.
  • Letort; Cherel (2014). "Women on the Algerian Art Scene: Interrogating the Postcolonial Gaze through Documentary and Video Art". Black Camera. 6 (1): 193. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.6.1.193. JSTOR 10.2979/blackcamera.6.1.193. S2CID 191602194.
  • McGonagle, Joseph (2011). "Travelling in Circles: Postcolonial Algiers in Zineb Sedira's "Saphir"". L'Esprit Créateur. 51 (1): 26–37. ISSN 0014-0767. JSTOR 26290019.
  • Amer, Sahar (2014-09-09). What is Veiling?. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-9684-0.
  • Thomas, Kylie; Green, Louise (2018-02-02). Photography in and out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-35824-4.
  • Shilton, Siobhan (2009-01-15). "Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art". In Keown, M.; Murphy, D.; Procter, J. (eds.). Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas. Springer. pp. 56–58. ISBN 978-0-230-23278-5.
  • Salami, Gitti; Visona, Monica Blackmun (2013). A Companion to Modern African Art. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 212, 501. ISBN 978-1-118-51505-1.
  • McGonagle, Joseph; Sedira, Zineb (March 2006). "Translating Differences: An Interview with Zineb Sedira". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 31 (3): 617–628. doi:10.1086/498990. ISSN 0097-9740.
  • “Zineb Sedira in conversation with Christine Van Assche,” Zineb Sedira, Saphir (Paris: Kamel Mennour & Paris Musées, 2006), 58–59.
  • Richard Dyer, “Saphir,” Zineb Sedira: The Photographer's Gallery (London: Kamel Mennour & Paris Musées, 2006).
  • Isabelle Perbal, “Entretien Zineb Sedira, Retour aux origins,” Qantara, October 2008.
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