Le quinzieme (The Fifteenth)

Oil painting, 2022
30 x 24

The Fifteenth_The Women of Algiers, 2022, is one of a series of sixteen paintings titled The Women of Algiers. This composition is based on a still image extracted from the artist’s film Barbary Fig. This short film depicts the path of an exile back through the path of memory. And tell the life story of Ghalia, the artist’s mother, who remembers fragments of her childhood as part of the Kabyle tribe during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) against the French colonial empire, and one of the many abandoned villages in which her mother and herself managed to survive until life became impossible. This scene shows Ghalia reflecting upon her past from the window of the fifteenth floor of the project building she lives in, in Paris, France.

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