Bio:

Rima Khraief (b. 1993) is a self-taught Tunisian visual artist based in Marseille & Tunis.

Her practice draws mainly on personal forms of writing - notebooks, diaries, fictional narratives - which she reinterprets through mediums such as installation, video and painting. Her work often lets the text guide the medium, choosing the one that allows its layers to emerge and its questions to resonate more fully.

Her work is permeated by a constant attention to dualities: between inside and outside, human and non-human, fiction and reality, physicality and virtuality... Through this gesture, she confronts ideas, materials or emotions, exploring their points of tension, complementarity or intersection.

In her video installations, she works mainly on the relationship between content (image and narrative) and its container (object, space, set-up), where the latter is no longer passive, but actively participates in the elaboration of the narrative.

Her inspirations are rooted as much in Internet culture as in mythology, two story-rich reservoirs that nourish her reflection on fiction. She is particularly interested in fiction not only as a narrative tool, but also as an active subject in the construction of personal and collective identities. In this vein, her recent projects question the way in which imaginary narratives circulate and are transformed according to context, medium or temporality.

Her work has been exhibited in Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany and England. She has also taken part in the Masaha residency at the Misk Art Institute (KSA) and the Tawassol residency at Hayou'raks (Tunisia).

In addition to her personal projects, the artist extends her artistic practice to collaborations, designing live visuals for live performances.