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Mawadda Jmei

Mawadda Jmei

Mawadda Jmei is a Tunisian photographer and visual artist whose work explores femininity, memory, the body, and resistance through intimate and poetic imagery. Rooted in feminist and collective struggles, her artistic practice moves between photography, performance, and storytelling. She is currently studying photography at the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts in Gabès and has collaborated with several cultural festivals and activist organizations in Tunisia. Through her work, she seeks to question systems of silence, identity, and power while creating sensitive visual narratives centered on women’s emotional landscapes.

Mawadda Jmei

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.