Dalila Dalléas Bouzar
Lives and works in Bordeaux, France
Born in 1974
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.
Featured works
Exhibitions
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
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
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 KhellafiSummer Group Show Level 1
Artworks
Citoyens du Monde #1, 2026
De Chair et de Rouille, 2026
Citoyens du Monde #2, 2026
Baigneuse, 2024
Baigneuse, 2024
La Poétesse, 2025
Femmes d'Alger d'après Delacroix #8, 2022
MD, 2025
Femmes d'Alger d'après Delacroix #7, 2022
Untitled #1, Série Soleman, 2015
Julie, 2025
Lila de dos, série Taboo, 2013
Untitled 1, Série Flowers, 2013
Autoportrait, 2025
Untitled 3, Série Flowers, 2013
Hoor's Dream 1, 2017
Selfportrait, 2022
Hoor's Dream 2, 2017
Autoportrait #1, 2025
Autoportrait #3, 2025
Julie #2, 2025