Zoulikha Bouabdellah is the daughter of Hassen Bouabdellah, a film director and Algerian writer, and Malika Dorbani, ex-head of the Algiers Fine Art Museum. Following her birth in Moscow in 1977, Zoulikha Bouabdellah grew up in the Algerian capital until the age of 16. In 1993, while the civil war was raging her family chose to leavie Algeria and settle in France where she still resides. Zoulikha graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Cergy-Pontoise in 2002 in Paris. Favoring video in her debut, she now works in a multitude of media challenging cultural dualities and imbalances, as well as cultural fusion and the ability to transcend borders.
