UNDER THE SKY AND OVER THE SEA – Zineb Serida
Zineb Sedira (b. 1963 in Paris, France) is a London-based artist who works in multicultural cities and on three different continents. She was born in Paris to Algerian parents. Through a combination of documentary tradition and Algerian and French contemporary cinema, Sedira´s work examines the flow of immigration from North Africa to Europe. Using video, short film and photography as her media, Sedira investigates the process whereby immigrants abandon the framework of their original culture and start to build a new identity. An identity which demands that they assimilate a new culture and its language. Zineb Sedira´s personal history and her autobiographical images are transformed into a universal experience that raises economic, ecological, geopolitical and global questions.
Sedira´s works embody the powerful oral tradition of storytelling in Arab culture and the characteristic role of women in North Africa as those who pass family stories on to the next generation.
Appearing for the first time in Finland, Sedira brings to the Pori Art Museum short films, photographs and video works.
In co-operation with: New Art Exchange, Nottingham (UK), Bildmuseet, Umeå, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen.
Publication:
ISBN 978-952-5648-18-8
Zineb Sedira Under the Sky and Over the Sea – Exhibition Publication
Texts: Lisa Le Feuvre, Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Nadira Laggoune-Aklouche, Eric Verhagen.
Translation: Varpu Laakso, Tomi Snellman
Layout: Marita Sorsamäki, Clear Vision Design
Images: Zineb Sedira, Erkki Valli-Jaakola
Publications of Pori Art Museum 99