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 [...]
