L’artiste

Born in june 1969, Héla Ammar is a Tunisian based visual artist. In addition to her training in visual art, she holds a Phd in Law. Her photographs and installations address the stakes of memory. Identity and marginal communities are reccurent themes in her work.

Author of « Corridors » (2014), a photo book on tunisian prisons,  and co-author of "Siliana Syndrome" (2013), a survey on death row in Tunisia, she developed a whole artwork around the prison environment.

A selection of her photographs and installations is part of the permanent collection of the British Museum (London), the Arab World Institute (Paris), the A.Slaoui Foundation’s Museum (Casablanca) …

Her work has been showcased in various international biennals and exhibitions such as Unhealed at The Modern Art Museum of Malmö Sweden (March 2024), Reflections at the British Museum (London 2021), The refugee week at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London 2019), Beyond borders at the Boghossian Foundation (Brussels, 2019), Mara’ina at the King Abdulaziz Center of Art and Culture, (Ithra, Saudi Arabia, 2019), The Biennal of the contemporary arab world photographers (Arab World Institute, Paris (France 2017), Dak’art Biennal (Senegal 2014, 2016), « Fragments d’une Tunisie contemporaine » MuCem (Marseille, France 2015), Addis Photo Fest (Ethiopia 2016, 2018), Bamako Encounters (Mali, 2015, 2017), Something Else, Off Biennal Cairo (Egypt 2015), International Photography Encounters of Fes (Morocco, 2015),  Instants Vidéo (Festival numérique et poétique (Marseille 2014, 2016, 2018), World Nomads New York ( USA, 2013), Les rencontres photographiques d’Arles (France, 2013), Dream City (Tunisia, 2010, 2012 and 2017) … 

Website: www.helaammar.net