BAYA. Algerian icon of modern Art, heiress to millennia of popular Art and Culture from Africa and the Orient.

From 8 November 2022 to 26 March 2023 - Exhibition - Institut du monde arabe

  • BAYA, Le rêve de la mère.

    Baya, Le rêve de la mère, 1947. One of the two versions of this work. Gouache on paper, 107,5 x 72 cm. Private Collection. © Photo Gabrielle Voinot.

  • BAYA. Le petit oiseau. La belle-mère prépare le couscous.

    Baya, Conte 4.3. Le petit oiseau. La belle-mère prépare le couscous, 1947. Gouache on paper, 24 x 31 cm. Aix-en-Provence, Archives nationales d’outre-mer (France), 73APOM13. © Archives nationales d'outre-mer, Aix-en-Provence.

  • BAYA. Landscape (Garden of Eden).

    Baya, Landscape (Garden of Eden), 1966. Gouache on paper, 100 x 150 cm. Previous collection of Marguerite Benhoura. Private Collection. © Photo Alberto Ricci.

  • BAYA, Les oiseaux musiciens.

    Baya, Les oiseaux musiciens, 1976. Gouache on paper, 100 x 150 cm. Previous collection of Marguerite Benhoura. Private Collection. © Photo Alberto Ricci.

  • BAYA, Femme et oiseaux en bleu.

    Baya, Femme et oiseaux en bleu, 1993. Gouache on paper, 75 x 100 cm. Paris, Musée de l’Institut du monde arabe, donation Claude & France Lemand, CFL-2018-BAYA-2. © Photo Alberto Ricci.

"BAYA. Algerian icon of modern Art, heiress to mil­lennia of pop­ular Art and Culture from Africa and the Orient".(Claude Lemand)

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BAYA. LIFE and WORK, by Anissa Bouayed

Baya is undoubt­edly the great Algerian artist who "added to the world" a uni­versal work. Bursting onto the artistic scene at the end of the colo­nial period, she intel­li­gently and spon­ta­neously knew how to extri­cate her­self from colo­nial deter­minisms, to become the first Algerian woman artist con­se­crated on the Parisian and inter­na­tional scene.

Baya. Women in their Garden will also shed new light on the “Baya case” from a per­spec­tive of post­colo­nial studies, sup­ported by the explo­ration of its archives. How did this unschooled young girl, who expe­ri­enced suf­fering and vio­lence, become, at the end of the colo­nial period, this Baya mas­tering the lan­guage of shapes and colors and pro­pelled from the age of 16 to the height of noto­riety, daz­zling Parisian writers, artists and art lovers and being the sub­ject of a double page (written by Edmonde Charles-Roux) in Vogue magazine in February 1948?

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