Katia Kameli

Born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1973, Katia Kameli is a French-Algerian artist. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges in 2000 and went on to complete Le Collège invisible, a postgraduate program directed by Paul Devautour at the École supérieure d’art et de design Marseille-Méditerranée, in 2003. Through installation, photography, video, and sound, Kameli has developed a practice situated at the intersection of documentary and experimental cinema. Her work explores archives, history, and collective memory, opening up multiple layers of interpretation and understanding. Regularly exhibited around the world, her works are held in several public collections. Between 2002 and 2004, she created Bledi, un scénario possible, a work that examines the traces of the Algerian Civil War. In 2020, Le Roman algérien was presented at the Kalmar Art Museum in Sweden. The film addresses questions of art, storytelling, and collective memory before turning to the popular protests of 2019 against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Through her work, Katia Kameli seeks to shed light on a shared history shaped by porous borders and reciprocal influences.