INÈS DI FOLCO JEMNI

Inès Di Folco Jemni’s painting can be compared to an infinite dream, peaceful and tumultuous, the fruit of an enigmatic recomposition between life and what may exist beyond it. It is nourished by the artist’s encounters, abundant readings, the films, songs and poems, archives and photographs she collects. It is rooted in her heritage, which oscillates between North Africa and the Caribbean, and swells with contact with her native and adopted lands: there’s Cuba and Havana, where she lived, Tunis and La Marsa, Naples and Italy... There’s also her hereditary and chosen family, her maternity, Sufism, shamanism, mythology and all that has been passed on to her. And finally, there’s what can’t be explained: magic, ghosts, visions, distorting time, nostalgia and stories on the verge of being forgotten.

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Recent solo exhibitions include Crèvecœur, Paris (FR), Magasins Généraux, Paris (FR), The Community Center, Paris (FR), Laurel Gitlen, New York (US), Friche Belle-de-Mai, Marseilles (FR), SISSI club, Marseilles (FR).

Recent group exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), MO.CO., Montpellier (FR), Crèvecœur, Paris (FR), Deli Gallery, Mexico City (MX), Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR), the Carbonne Biennale, Saint-Etienne (FR), Beaux-arts de Paris (FR), Galerie agnès b, New York (US), and others.

Inès di Folco Jemni has performed on various occasions, including at Cosmos-Arles Books, Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles (FR), Bétonsalon - Centre d’Art et de Recherche, Paris (FR), Villa Vassilief, Paris (FR), La Nuit Blanche, Espace Khiasma, Les Lilas (FR), and more.

Text courtesy Crèvecoeur.