Amina Zoubir

Amina Zoubir (born 1983) is a contemporary artist, filmmaker and performer from Algiers, Algeria. She is known as a feminist performer through video-actions entitled Take your place, which she directed in 2012 during the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence, aiming to question gender issues and conditions of women in Algerian society. She has worked with different art mediums such as sculpture, drawing, installation art, performance and video art. Her work relates to notions of body language in specific spaces of North Africa territories. Amina Zoubir is an Algerian-born French visual artist based between Paris, France and Algiers, Algeria. She was raised in a family of scientists and artists, her mother Hania is a doctor of medicine and researcher at the Pierre & Marie Curie Center at Hospital Mustapha Pacha in Algiers, while her father Hellal Zoubir is a notable painter and designer based in Algeria and represented by the Tafeta Gallery in London. She obtained the DESA degree of graphic design in 2006 at the Superior School of Fine Arts of Algiers École supérieure des beaux-arts d'Alger, Algeria. She moved to Paris, France in 2007 to develop her artistic research and practice where she graduated with a Master of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art and New Media in 2009 at the University Paris VIII. In 2006, Zoubir directed her first documentary film as a performative video-action entitled Take the bus and look, developing an incipient reflection on the relationship between individuals, art, and cinema in the early turmoil of a society rising after the collective trauma of a civil war. In 2010, Zoubir published her academic research as a book entitled video art of Algerian artists - Relation de l’image et du son dans la vidéo contemporaine algérienne : une expérience en temps réel. Her research and practice question the notions of body language in specific spaces where religious, social, and political codifications are applied to define a body typology in North Africa territories.