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Houria Niati ou les parures féminines traditionnelles algériennes revisitées

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Algerian artist Houria Niati was born before her country gained independence in 1962 and came to live in London in 1977. She was raised in a multicultural environment and has been witnessing Algeria’s difficulties in thinking its own national, religious identity and Arab and Berber’s heritages. Her work has been focusing on post-Orientalism and the conditions of Women. This paper will study a recent set of digital montages, titled What if project (2007) in order to understand the idea of transmission in postcolonial contexts. These montages fuse old photographs of Berber indigenous women in their traditional outfits and adornments, taken during French colonial rule and collected by the artist, with the portrait of Nabila, a 25-year-old French/Algerian student – the daughter of a first-generation Algerian immigrant to France. The analysis of the pictures – printed on canvas and paper – will present the artist’s exploration of the role and power of silver jewelry, henna’s decoration, strong perfume and big turbans in Algerian culture, now and then. It will question how this specifically female thing, when women parade their ancient finery that had survived many invasions, was transmitted during colonialism. But it will also consider the way is still transmitted and may still be used, today, to proclaim freedom, sensuality, beauty and a unique identity. The idea is to understand the value of the collected adornments by women since they were young as vehicles for protecting and transmitting their culture. Our study is interested in showing how the art of Niati is participating to the transmission of a way of thinking that may be less visible in daily contemporary life. We will explore the art of an Algerian migrant artist as a testimony and a transmission of a way of "being", of existing as individual of Algerian descent.
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hal-03643649 , version 1 (16-04-2022)

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Geneviève Guétemme. Houria Niati ou les parures féminines traditionnelles algériennes revisitées. Décentrement(s), théories et pratiques d’un concept nomade, Mar 2022, Orleans, France. ⟨hal-03643649⟩
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