Dalila Dalléas Bouzar is a Franco Algerian artist based in Bordeaux, France. After having studied Biology, she then enrolled at the Beaux-Arts de Paris where she studied Fine Art. She won the 2021 SAM prize. Part of the prize is a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in October 2023.
Her figurative style enables her treatment of political, historical, biological and historical content. Her use of colour and her drawing skills are well suited to creating exceptional and unique stone lithographs at Atelier le Grand Village. Particularly sensitive to violence, she considers her creativity as a means of regeneration and reinvention. Her practice has broadened to performance, textile art and printmaking, ways of experiencing the body in ritual form and collective creation.
Born in Oran, of Algerian parents, she draws from her double culture other relationships to the image, the object and the sacred, attentive to the cultural dissonance she creates as well as to the hegemony of Western representations in the history of art. She identifies above all with African women and their traditions and draws from Algerian memory the forms of a history of violence to which her work responds.
