Photo: courtesy of the artist & kamel mennour, Paris
Two years after the opening of the Cité nationale d’histoire de l’immigration in Paris, and at a time where French public opinion is increasingly acknowledging the reality of a History and memory of immigrants, one can begin to consider the place and questioning of these issues in contemporary art. In this regard, the work done in France and around the world by young artists of Algerian origin makes it possible to draw the contours of an art that has caught hold of the immigration reality, dual culture and the painful history that links the host country to the country of origin.
Uprootedness, multiculturalism, religion, living conditions, personal history and History writ large, are among the subjects treated by artists born after 1962, who are daughters and sons of Algerian immigrants, or Algerians exiled after the civil war that erupted in the 1990s.
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