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Chiraz Mosbah

ARTFORMS
Photography, Cinema, Scenography, Installations

MATERIALS / MEDIA
Photography papers, videos, films, documentaries, objects, recycled objects

TASAWAR INTERESTS
Chiraz Mosbah, Interior designer and art historian. Teaching design and curatorial studies at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Sousse.

QUOTES
My passion for art started with my first exploration of the traditional city of Tunis.
My art productions are related to photography, cinema, scenography and installations showed in different countries.
The inspirations are taken from everything I see, live and feel in my surrounding society. My engaged work tends to focus on a critical thinking of social, cultural, ritual and political issues inviting the viewer to meditate. I try to interpret/reflect familiar concerns from people’s daily life, by using a variety of materials and processes.
An important aspect of my work is the interaction with people, familiar/unfamiliar with arts, and I often utilise unconventional spaces for my artworks (rubbles, corridors, toilets…).
I try to create an art for each mental viewer to share thoughts/opinions far from the received ideas of our educational system, something to change a persons’ perception, a way to resist to extinction.
I was member of the Tunisian Federation of Amateur Filmmakers and I had contributed to the completion of several short films that participated in national/international festivals and won many awards. I had organized personal/group photography exhibitions, in Tunisia, France, Spain and Bahrain. I had participated in the festivals of foreign artists in Paris through a series of installations and had organized cultural events in Tunisia and France. I was one of the founders of a Contemporary Art Society, Paris. I was appointed as juror of an international photo competitions in Tunisia, as well as expert at the 7th session of Ta’a-Alshabab Festival in Bahrain.

ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES SELECTION
1993-2003 | Tunis.tn | Contribution to the production of documentaries – FTCA (Tunisian Federation of Amateur Filmmakers)
1993-2009 | Tunis.tn and Paris.fr | Regular personal and group exhibition activity, mainly in France and Tunisia
2013-2018 | Bahrain.bh | Regular group scenography activity in Bahrain
2014-2018 | Bahrain.bh | Regular organisation of cultural and artistic events in Bahrain

FORMATION
Tunis.tn | Higher Institute of Fine Arts – Sousse | Habilitation in Arts and Crafts
Paris.fr | La Sorbonne – Paris IV | Doctorate in History of Islamic Art and Archaeology
Tunis.tn | University of Humanities and Social Sciences | Master in Heritage and Archaeology
Tunis.tn | Higher Institute of Fine Arts (ISBAT) | Bachelor in Interior Design

BIO
Lived in Paris.fr from 1999 to 2005
Lived in Manama.bh from 2011 to 2018
Lives in Tunis.tn
1973 Born in Tunis.tn