Maya-Inès Touam

Born in France to Algerian parents, Maya’s work sits between two shores of the Mediterranean, exploring an oriental aesthetic, not from a neo-orientalist point of view, but from her own point of view as the granddaughter of emigrants - how to account for an identity that is both intimate and foreign to her?

Resorting to different media - photography, drawing, and sculpture – and with symbolic or personal objects as her starting point, the artist has been constructing a body of work that is both anthropological and oneiric. She immerses herself in the roots of her origins, which she questions and investigates in order to draw images (often still lives) from these fragments of history. Her research also extends to the diasporas of the African continent in France, adding a postcolonial perspective on immigration to her work.

INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS AND DIALOGUES

GROUP SHOW

1 June - 7 July 2023

We are pleased to present in Lisbon 'Intercultural Encounters and Dialogues' - an Africa-focused photography group exhibition. The show presents about 21 works by artists Dagmar Van Weeghel, Maya-Inès Touam,...

PARAGONE: What’s with mediums today?

INTERNATIONAL GROUP SHOW

26 May - 20 August 2023

The PARAGONE exhibition offers a guided tour program that promotes the rediscovery in three stages of a historical heritage—unknown to many—linked to the city of Lisbon’s water supply: Cape Verde...