Algeria

_{3d animation of a painting by Myriam Hammani made in watercolour after reading Malija Mokedem's novel; L'Interdite. This novel speaks of her own experience as an Algerian woman living in France and coming back to her homeland on the edge of the Sahara to find out that the man she loves, Yacine, has died a few days before her arrival. L'Interdite is about the inner life feeling and the relationship between a man and a woman in this Algerian desert... Read more} 

_{With the spread of Islam outward from the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century, the figurative artistic traditions of the newly conquered lands profoundly influenced the development of Islamic art. Ornamentation in Islamic art came to include figural representations in its decorative vocabulary, drawn from a variety of sources. Although the often cited opposition in Islam to the depiction of human and animal...(courtesy of metsmuseum)}

_{North Africa, or the Maghrib, comprises Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Art of the Maghrib is distinguished by a mystical quality drawing on the region's symbols and signs that originate in pre-Islamic Berber motifs and a rich Islamic heritage introduced to the region by Arabs in the seventh century. From the Fezzan and Tassili petroglyphs in Libya and Algeria...(courtesy of metmuseum)}

_{In the context of events organized on the occasion of the "Year of Algeria in France", it seemed essential to stage an exhibition that retraces the tracks of the history of modern and contemporary fine arts in Algeria. The exhibition aims at acquainting the public with Algerian artists and their works produced since the 1920s in an attempt to provide details of the particularities, biases, and specificities... Read more by Ramón Tio Bellido, curator of Univers in Universe}