Amina Menia

The Extra Muros project(2005 – ongoing) This project is an ongoing series of urban installations in the city of Algiers where she revisits legendary places, landmark venues, urban gaps. Her interventions crystallize in a space not in an artwork.These installations are works in progress, and meant to be occasions for exchange with the audience. As […]

The CHRYSANTHEMUMS project(2009-2011) “Inaugurer les chrysanthèmes” (French for “To inaugurate chrysanthemums”) : this is a well known proverb in Algeria. It is an ironic reference to all the realizations which are announced but never realized. Commemoration stelae which were constructed and used for ceremonies are still present, and punctuate the Algerian urban landscape. Lasting remains of […]