Dalila Dalléas Bouzar
Visual Artist
During my residency at Kalhath Institute, I would like to create an embroidered burnous. The burnous is a sleeveless coat with a pointed hood worn by men in the Maghreb. It's a traditional garment, and an emblematic symbol in Algeria. It stands for dignity, social status and nobility. The bournous will be shown at a group exhibition titled OVERTIME (Prolongation) at the Institut des Cultures d'Islam in March 2026. The Exhibition uses soccer as a means of exploring the role of young men from immigrant families in French society. While collaborating with the embroiderers, I would love for their creativity and knowledge of embroidery to enhance the project.
Dalila Dalléas Bouzar was born in 1974 in Algeria and she lives and works in Bordeaux, France trained in biology before discovering painting and perfecting her skills at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. In her work, she addresses individual and collective memory, particularly in relation to Algerian history. Starting with drawing and painting, her practice has expanded to include textile art and performance, in which she deconstructs the clichés of Arab women’s representation while questioning the role of the artist in these representations. By painting invisibilized identities, she seeks to highlight the power issues of Western representations in art history.
