Maya Inès Touam
Lives and works in Paris
Born in 1988
Maya Inès Touam's work explores the intersections of memory, heritage, and cultural transmission. Working across installation, photography, sculpture, and moving image, she examines how personal and collective histories are constructed, preserved, and reinterpreted. Her practice often brings together archival materials, oral narratives, and symbolic objects to create layered environments that reflect the complexity of identity and belonging. Through these assemblages, Touam proposes alternative ways of engaging with history and cultural memory….Read more
She explores her Mediterranean heritage by deconstructing and recombining Western, Eastern, and Pan-African cultures, using photography to question the origins of images
Featured works
Autels de la Prospérité, 2022
Délices du Temps, 2021
Exhibitions
Summer Group Show Level 1 & 2
Next Level. The Hamid Khellafi gallery changes 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 collective exhibition….Read more
Galerie Hamid Khellafi