Elma Riza
Aïn
Video
2022
Elma Riza is a French-Tunisian artist, based in Berlin. She studied at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes (2005-2007), then continued her studies at the School of Fine Arts in Berlin to graduate with honors in 2012.
She exhibits mainly in Germany, France and Tunisia. And has had two solo exhibitions, one in Tunis in 2018 at La Boîte _ Un lieu d’Art contemporain and one in Berlin in 2020 at Galerie Weisser Elefant. She obtained for her video “When a Line goes for a Walk” the female voice award, during the Berlin Minute Festival in September 2022.
Her work takes shape in different mediums such as video, performance, photography, installation and drawing. Her research is oriented around the notion of landscape, from an ecological, anthropological and poetic point of view.
Elma Riza’s work is heavily influenced by a minimal aesthetic and the poetry of simple forms. Between 2014 and 2019, her research will focus on the possibilities of a spatialization of these forms and their graphic potential in relation to the body in the context of a performative installation, realized in situ. The question of landscape remains omnipresent in her approach, whether it is an abstract landscape, an architectural landscape or a “wild” landscape. From 2019, she will orient her approach around this theme through different mediums, and from 2020, she will return to the medium of performative-video, leading the viewer to reflect on the effective transformation of our environment, our cartography, our personal and daily landscape.
