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Maya Inès Touam, « Things That Remain », Filles du Calvaire, Fall 2023

Maya Inès Touam grabs every bit of freedom she can. And she doesn’t apologies for it. In Les Choses qui restent [Things That Remain], the Franco-Algerian artist and photographer shares with us her fascination for Western art history and offers an alternative narrative: something that looks a little bit more like her. In this exhibition, appropriation functions as a narrative strategy for the depiction of “in-between” worlds, in the image of those who share her experience of a life between two shores. Trained as an artist …