Lydia Ourahmane
{{Short description|Algerian artist (born 1992)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
Lydia Ourahmane (born 1992, Saïda, Algeria) is an artist based in Barcelona, London and Algiers. Ourahmane has had recent solo exhibitions at MACBA,{{Cite web |date=2024-03-08 |title=Lydia Ourahmane: 108 Days {{!}} Exhibition {{!}} MACBA |url=https://www.macba.cat/en/exhibitions/lydia-ourahmane-108-days/ |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona |language=en-US}} Barcelona, SculptureCentre,{{Cite web |title=Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili |url=https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/13458/lydia-ourahmane-tassili |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.sculpture-center.org |language=en}} New York; rhizome, Algiers; Kunsthalle Basel,{{Cite web |date=2024-08-08 |title=Barzakh • Kunsthalle Basel |url=https://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/exhibition/lydia_ourahmane/ |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=Kunsthalle Basel |language=de-DE}} Switzerland; S.M.A.K {{Cite web |title=Lydia Ourahmane Barzakh |url=https://smak.be/en/exhibitions/lydia-ourahmane-barzakh |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=SMAK |language=en}} Ghent; Portikus,{{Cite web |title=#226A Lydia Ourahmane: Survival in the afterlife - Portikus Frankfurt |url=https://www.portikus.de/en/exhibitions/226a_survival_in_the_afterlife |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.portikus.de}} Frankfurt; De Appel,{{Cite web |title=Lydia Ourahmane Survival in the afterlife - Events - de Appel Amsterdam |url=https://www.deappel.nl/en/events/2237-lydia-ourahmane-survival-in-the-afterlife |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=www.deappel.nl}} Amsterdam; Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and Chisenhale Gallery,{{Cite web |title=The you in us |url=https://chisenhale.org.uk/project/lydia-ourahmane/ |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=Chisenhale Gallery |language=en}} London.{{Cite web|url=http://theartnewspaper.com/preview/lydia-ourahmane-sound-system|title=Lydia Ourahmane on why she made a work about her grandfather pulling all his teeth|website=theartnewspaper.com|date=February 2018 |access-date=2019-05-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/lydia-ourahmane/|title=Lydia Ourahmane by Ben Blackmore|website=bombmagazine.org|access-date=2019-05-30}}
Her work was included in the 60th Venice Biennale,{{Cite web |last=Maps |first=Arsenale See on Google |date=2024-03-11 |title=Biennale Arte 2024 {{!}} Lydia Ourahmane |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/nucleo-contemporaneo/lydia-ourahmane |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |language=en}} 15th Gwangju Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), New Museum Triennial and Manifesta 12, Palermo (2018).
Career
Ourahmane work has been exhibited internationally since she graduated from Goldsmiths University London in 2014.
Ourahmane's research-driven practice spans spirituality,{{cite web | url=https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/432316/spacemaking-and-soul-delay | title="Spacemaking and Soul Delay" - Criticism - e-flux }} contemporary geopolitics,{{cite journal | url=https://www.frieze.com/article/one-take-lydia-ourahmanes-two-gold-teeth | title=One Take: Lydia Ourahmane's Two Gold Teeth | journal=Frieze | date=31 October 2018 | issue=199 | last1=Wilson-Goldie | first1=Kaelen }} migration, and the complex histories of colonialism.{{cite web | url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202206/negar-azimi-on-the-art-of-lydia-ourahmane-88616 | title=Negar Azimi on the art of Lydia Ourahmane }} She incorporates video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation on an often large or monumental scale that has consequences beyond the walls of her exhibitions. Drawing on personal and collective narratives and experiences, Ourahmane challenges broader institutional structures such as surveillance, logistics and bureaucratic processes, and the ways these forces are registered.
Ourahmane's recent solo exhibitions include; Tassili, SculptureCenter, NY, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris and Mercer Union, Toronto (2022-2023), Survival in the afterlife, Portikus, Frankfurt and De Appel, Amsterdam (2021); Barzakh,{{cite journal | url=https://www.frieze.com/article/lydia-ourahmane-triangle-asterides-2021-review | title=Lydia Ourahmane Invites Us into Her Apartment | journal=Frieze | date=30 June 2021 | issue=221 | last1=Durand | first1=Oriane }}{{cite web | url=https://www.neroeditions.com/a-story-of-displacement/ | title=A Story of Displacement | NERO | date=30 April 2021 }}{{cite web | url=https://vimeo.com/527204516 | title=Lydia Ourahmane – Art Taaalkssss | date=22 March 2021 }} Kunsthalle Basel, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, S.M.A.K. Ghent (2021-2022); صرخة شمسیة Solar Cry, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,{{cite web | url=https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/325169/lydia-ourahmane-s-solar-cry | title=Lydia Ourahmane's "صرخة شمسية Solar Cry" - Criticism - e-flux }} San Francisco (2020); and The you in us,{{cite web | url=https://elephant.art/lydia-ourahmane-on-war-violence-and-collective-trauma/ | title=Lydia Ourahmane on War, Trauma and Love | date=2 February 2018 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2018/02/01/lydia-ourahmane-on-why-she-made-a-work-about-her-grandfather-pulling-all-his-teeth-out | title=Lydia Ourahmane on why she made a work about her grandfather pulling all his teeth | date=February 2018 }} Chisenhale Gallery, London (2018), among others.
Her work was included in the 60th La Biennale di Venezia, 15th Gwangju Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), New Museum Triennial and Manifesta 12, Palermo (2018).
In 2018 Ourahmane presented Music for Two Seas an underwater sound work in the coast of Stromboli with collaborator Nicolas Jaar. With collaborator Alex Ayed, she presented Laws of Confusion at Renaissance Society, Chicago (2021) and was included in Risquons-Tout, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2020). On 1 October 2022 she presented sync{{cite web | url=https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/pause-lydia-ourahmane/ | title=Pause: Lydia Ourahmane | date=3 August 2022 }} a 24-hour performance at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin in collaboration with artist Daniel Blumberg.
Other activities
In 2023, Ourahmane signed an open letter in support of the appointment of curator Mohamed Almusibli as director of Kunsthalle Basel.Alex Greenberger (16 November 2023), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/kunsthalle-basel-mohamed-almusibli-israel-gaza-ceasefire-letters-1234687215/ Kunsthalle Basel Names New Director, Then Faces Pushback Because He Signed Gaza Ceasefire Letter] ARTnews.
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