Born in 1993 in Tlemcen, Ahmed Merzagui is an Algerian visual artist who develops a multidisciplinary, aesthetically fragmented and heterogeneous practice based on photography, videography and mixed media, often carried by a philosophical, psychological and introspective reflective approach.
Through a hybrid background (physician, artist and development project administrator) and various expressive practices, the artist questions a reality that is prima facie considered multiple, diverse and dissonant. The reality of a world that is akin to an ever-changing scene, which we as human beings must document, report, describe or tell to our fellow human beings for existential purposes, thus giving our vision, undoubtedly subjective, but always unique and interesting, of this infinitely multifaceted painting that is Reality.
Ahmed Merzagui is currently working on various projects around personal, social, historical and identity-related reflections. During his residency at the Cité internationale des arts, he will attempt to question the vision, the perception and the relationship between Algeria and France through the multiple human realities that it implies.