by Amina Menia “Algiers has never stopped changing throughout the centuries:Berber, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Andalusian, Ottoman, French.It has known and assimilated all styles.It shifts, lashes out, snorts like an asphalt animal.It sheds its skin like an urban reptile.” Excerpt from [...]
by Myriam Amroun Operating in a context such as Algeria – and particularly for the professions gravitating around art and culture – has become, by necessity, a project for life.1 The fact of “staying” and establishing oneself there is not [...]
by Natasha Marie Llorens The first and most significant aesthetic task of French colonization was to map space.1 To dispossess people of their land, the colonial regime had to know that land. It produced a vast quantity of drawings to [...]
by Katia Porro In 2015, La belle revue initiated our column “Global Terroir” with the desire to highlight the artistic scene of a foreign territory situated beyond the major capitals, to address the problematics specific to remote localities similar to [...]
The increasing polarization of Swedish society made an impact on the art scene in Malmö last year. Due to two election campaigns and an increase in fascist action, I was just as likely to meet with artists at openings as [...]
Annabel Rioux — What are you working on at the moment ? Christian Andersson — I’m preparing for my exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland that opens in June. It will consist of a selection of older works together with [...]
