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Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

Born in 1974. Lives and works in Bordeaux.

Trained as an illustrator, Dalila Dalléas Bouzar discovered painting in Berlin after studying biology, before enrolling at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where painting became central to her work.

Her figurative style, at the crossroads of realism and the dreamlike, rejects the authority of overly precise drawing in favor of boundless experimentation with color and a contrasting treatment of light. From the political to the historical, from the biological to the psychological, her work interrogates the powers of pictorial representation on multiple levels.

Her obsession with painting bodies and faces reflects her desire to view the portrait as a means of investigating identity or critically expressing relations of domination, whether patriarchy or colonialism. Particularly sensitive to violence against the body, she views painting as a means of preserving, regenerating, or reinventing its integrity. Her practice has expanded to include performance and textile art, two ways of testing her own body through ritual and collective creation.

Excerpt from a biography written by Florian Gaité

www.daliladalleas.com

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