Artists

Arij Bouchami

Arij Bouchami

Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing of Cultural and Creative Industries, she has gained hands-on experience within the cultural scene in Tunis through various roles in festivals and art spaces. Alongside this professional path, she continues to develop her artistic practice in visual arts, particularly photography and collage. Her work mainly focuses on photomontage and photocollage, using photography as both a documentary and expressive medium. Starting from her own photographs, often capturing everyday scenes, she then intervenes manually or digitally through layering, cutting, and assembling images to create new visual narratives. Through this process, she explores the ability of the image to move beyond straightforward representation toward a more subjective and poetic composition, questioning the photographic medium and its relationship to perception and representation.

Arij Bouchami

RAYDIUS: Photographic Group Project in Tilal Utique:

A cohort of six photographers will be invited to participate. Together with German curator Michael Gleich, they will create a series of documentary-artistic portraits. The protagonists are ordinary people. They live in the vicinity of the new Tilal Utique event center (30 minutes from Tunis). Some work there, others are farmers, imams, athletes, artists, etc. in the surrounding area. 
  
Purpose of the project: To use photography as a medium to strengthen the bond between the place and the people around it and to express appreciation for the protagonists. The result will be an “open studio” at the end of the production period, to which the protagonists, employees of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, and guests of Tilal Utique will be invited. An exhibition there is also under discussion.  
  
The curator will provide a few guidelines for the project (e.g., black-and-white photography), leaving room for the photographers' own styles, ideas, and interpretations of portrait photography.