ARTFORMS
Her work combines digital, virtual and real dimensions.
Photography , installation, , interventions, video , photomontage …
MATERIALS / MEDIA
Papers , wire, roasting, screen, light, mixed media …
GUIDING INTERESTS
Her photomontages reduce different forms often linked to the positions of her three children. It covers her life experience since she gave birth to triplets but also her woman’s body and events in her country are the main vectors of her work.
EXHIBITIONS
2019 | Ulysse de la Hafsia / 1ère Biennale de Rabat
« Un instant avant le monde » curaté par Abdelkader Damani
2019 | Les aires bleues / SEE DJERBA
2019 | Dommus Artist Residency / Galatina
2019 | Vénus de la Hafsia/Musée National du Bardo
//Les dames de la Hafsia/G. Alain Nadaud//Tlaffit/Bibliothèque
2018 | Interférence Mrabbaa/مربّع
2018 | VR-UV Utopies visuelles / Sousse
2018 | Détail : Kaïros / Tunis 2017// La Khirba / Sfax
2018 | Inquiétante étrangeté / Tunis 2017 //
Etrange dignité Mouna et Sadika / Gorée
2017 | Bertillonnage graphique / Géo-Grafi Tunis 2017 / نور الشكل Egypte
2017 | Nilwood Melody : Qu’avons nous fait de nos rêves! Casablanca
2017 Tunis, Detail Exhibition, GHAYA GALLERY
2017 Kram, UNDER THE SURFACE, JAOU
2017 Casablanca, TRIBUTE TO MY PARENTS, Slaoui Foundation Museum
2016 | Action à l’école primaire El Bderna / Sfax
2016 | Lumières d’Afriques / Paris
Marseille 2016| Tunis2017 | Toulouse 2018 |
Installation Vidéo « Sous la surface » Mouna & Pauliina
2016 | Addis Ababa, WHEN SPACES SPEAK OF TIME, Addisfotofest
2016 | London , THE NEW PICTURE, Exhibitions of ten Tunisian artists at the Tunisian Embassy
2016 | Dakar, WHEN SPACE SPEAK OF TIME, Dak’art Biennale
2016 | Tunis, REFLEXION, Gardens of the French Embassy residence in Tunisia
2016 | Marrakech, THE SON, Marrakech Biennale
2016 | Sfax, SOS BORJ AT RISK
Le fils / 2015 | Something Else Cairo / 2015 | Biennale de Marrakech / 2018 | Open Week Perugia
2014 | Non à la division
2013 | Cross-Border Contemporary female artists
from the Arabian Mediterranean Region /ZKM
Since 2008 Several participations in international exhibitions
FORMATION
Mouna obtained a Master’s degree in visual arts in the “engraving” specialty at the Technological Institute of Art
A visual artist, Mouna is holder of a PhD Thesis “The shadow traces times , by a photographic approach “in Arts and Arts’ Sciences from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
BIO
Born in 1973 in Paris, lives and works in Tunis.
LINKS
TEXT
From 6 to 9 September in the Medina of Tunis in Dar Hadded as part of the festival of light INTERFERENCE2018 MRABBAA / المربع
“Mrabaa” is an installation made of wires. It is fragile and ephemeral and was designed and made in situ on the patio of Dar Hadded, located at the dead end of the artillery in Tunis.
Dar Hadded is one of the oldest palaces of the Medina of Tunis dating from the 16th century.
The installation I made and weaved with the precious help of a team of young volunteers comes to stand in the heart of the patio of this historic monument, like a spider web as if to protect it. Looking up to the square of the sky we see a canvas of rotating squares forming rosettes, like several ornaments and motifs of Arab-Muslim or Arab-Andalusian art. The light projected onto the canvas screen on the rhythm of percussion “Mrabaa tounsi”, comes by its flicker fragmenting the structure of the installation.
MRABBAA / المربع INTERFERENCE 2018
VIDEO
IMAGES
Mouna Jemal Siala Artworks
QUOTES
“My art articulates the digital, the virtual and the real. Concerned by the need to preserve memory of an action, an event, an experience, i furrow my personal story, linking in a way my life and my art. My triplets, my woman’s body and events in my country are the main vectors my work.”
Author Sana Mahfoudhi