Amina Menia

Amina Menia’s work actively questions our relation to architectural and historical spaces. Working across installation, sculpture and photography, drawing upon relational aesthetics, her art encourages exchange, interaction and appears like an invitation to reevaluate our understanding of heritage, and de-construct our conception of beauty by challenging conventional notions around the exhibition space.She is passionate about the city of Algiers, and sees it as a metaphor of herself. That is why she designed a serie of urban installations to revisit landmarks or urban interstices in the city. These installations were works in progress, and meant to be occasions for exchange with the audience. Apart from Chapter 1 which occurred in 2005, this project has not been realized in all its different phases due to authorities regularly refusing to collaborate. These reactions overlap with the purpose of her enquiry which constantly questions the status of public space and its forms of reappropriation.