Ismaïl Bahri studied at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts and at La Sorbonne, Paris. His work incorporates many cultural and aesthetic references, developing visual experiments resulting in forms of drawings, videos, photographs and installations. He has exhibited at La Criée, Rennes; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Les églises, Chelles; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe; Kunst Im Tunnel, Düsseldorf; Mexico’s National Museum of Arts; Sharjah Biennial and Tanger’s Cinemathèque, among others. His films have been selected at international film festivals such as TIFF, Toronto; NYFF, New York; IFFR, Rotterdam; or FID, Marseille. Ismaïl Bahri is currently preparing an exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Last update 17th May, 2017