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Zeineb Henchiri
Zeineb Henchiri was born in Tunis in 1992 and lives and works in Paris. A visual artist, performer and neuropsychologist, she explores the interstitial spaces of our contemporary existence, where we are both present and absent, real and fictional, connected and profoundly alone. Through the creation of hybrid female figures, she questions forms of confinement, whether imposed or self-created. Using the body, memory and digital artifacts as materials, she questions our relationship to the world and the tensions that arise from it.Her work has been presented in several institutions including the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2024) during the Nuit Blanche with the performance “Inachevés”, at Station B7L9 (Tunis, 2023) with her solo exhibition ‘Shadow’, the Fondation Kamel Lazaar (Tunis, 2020) with “Persona”, the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, 2012)
The dialectic between presence and absence runs through my work through fictional and hybrid characters who evolve in an in-between space, blurring the boundaries between memory and fiction. Following on from my research on Echo, Ovid's nymph, I propose to explore the bunkers of Albania-relics of a dictatorship marked by paranoia and the obsession of an omnipresent threat. Built under the haunts of an invisible enemy, these abandoned military structures remain impregnated with the psychosis that spawned them. As enclosed spaces, cut off from the world, they blur the boundaries between protection and confinement, refuge and prison, memory and oblivion. My aim is to explore these places as echo chambers, where the voice of the past converses with the present, where memory vacillates between reality, delusion and fiction.
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