Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

Lives and works in Bordeaux, France

Born in 1974

Painted Autoportrait, 2025 by Dalila Dalleas Bouzar. A hand-painted portrait of a woman with dark hair, wearing a black dress with gold jewelry, with abstract pink and black strokes around her face. The background is beige, textured fabric.

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar is a Franco-Algerian artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, drawing, textiles, and performance. Her work examines memory, history, identity, and representation, often revisiting colonial narratives and historical imagery through a contemporary lens. Combining personal and collective histories, she develops powerful figurative works that question cultural transmission and belonging. In recent years, her practice has increasingly incorporated collaborative and textile-based projects, reflecting her interest in craftsmanship and shared forms of knowledge... Read more

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar uses the portrait as an act of reparation.

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Painting Baigneuse, 2024 by Dalila Dalleas Bouzar. Swimming naked woman with pink satin or silk fabric with intricate pleated or gathered design background, creating a flowing, layered appearance.

Jamais les crépuscules ne vaincront les aurores

Encountering the world begins with the hands.While Dalila Dalléas Bouzar has gained recognition in recent years for her politically engaged performances, her textile installations and embroidery work, drawing and painting remain at the core of her artistic practice. Everything begins with the body, her own and that of others, which she activates, sets in motion and represents... Read More

Paiting Untitled 3, Série Flowers, 2013 by Dalila Dalleas Bouzar. Close-up of a red lily flower against a dark background.

Carte Blanche

"The encounter with the world goes through the hands," Henri Guette recently wrote about Dalila Dalléas Bouzar. Everything in her house starts from the body and the gesture: a line that connects, a color that asserts itself, a space that transforms... Read More

Galerie Hamid Khellafi
Femmes d'Alger d'après Delacroix #8 by Dalila Dalleas Bouzar. A colorful abstract painting featuring three nude and semi-nude with dark hair, lying on a bright yellow background, with a metallic gold curtain on the upper right corner.

Next Level. The Hamid Khellafi gallery changes its level for a summer. After the opening of its cycle dedicated to Algerian artists in February 2025, and the first solo exhibitions of Chemsedine Herriche, Adlane Samet and Mehdi Djelil, the gallery inaugurates a new stage with Summer Group Show, an evolving group exhibition... Read More

Galerie Hamid Khellafi

Summer Group Show Level 1

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