Mouna Karray

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Mouna Karray is a Tunisian photographer and video artist. Born in Sfax, Tunisia in 1970, she studied cinema and photography at the Institut Supérieur d’Animation Culturelle in Tunis and earned her Masters in Photography in 2001 at the Tokyo Polytechnic University in Japan. Her art explores socio-political themes in relation to identity.^[1][2] She has done residencies at Centre d’Art Vivant De Radès (2004, Tunisia), the Cité internationale des arts (2005, Paris), and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2007, Umbria, Italy).^[3] She is currently working in Sfax and Paris.^[4]

Exhibitions[]

Individual exhibitions

• Nobody will talk about us, Tyburn Gallery, London (2016)^[5]
• Murmurer, Galerie El Marsa, Tunis (2011)
• The cut-out, Diwan Dar el Jeld de la Medina, Tunis (2004)

Collective exhibitions (selection)

• Dak'Art, Dakar (2016)^[6]
• The Sea is my Land, MAXXI, Rome (2013)
• Ici, ailleurs, Friche la Belle de Mai, Tour-Panorama, Marseille (2013)
• The Bamako Encounters, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2013)
• Bright Future Contemporary Art from Tunisia, Ifa Gallery Stuttgart (2013)
• #COMETOGETHER: LONDON, Edge of Arabia. Old Truman Brewery, London (2012)
• Bright Futur Contemporary Art from Tunisia, Ifa Gallery Berlin (2012)
• Dream City, 3rd edition, Sfax, Tunis (2012)
• The Bamako Encounters, BOZAR , Brussels (2012)
• Chkoun Ahna, Musée National de Carthage, Tunisia (2012)
• Dégagement… La Tunisie un an après, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2012)
• Les 9e Rencontres de la photographie, Bamako (2011)
• A Useful Dream, BOZAR, Brussels (2010)
• PICHA, Image encounters, Lubumbashi (2010)
• L'autre bord #1, Galerie des grands bains douches, Marseille (2010)
• Photoquai, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2009)
• Spot on Bamako 2007, IFA gallery, Stuttgart (2009)
• Women of images, snatches of intimacy, Centre Culturelle Française a Beyrouth, Lebanon (2009)

Sources[]

• Hadria, Michèle Cohen (2013). Trois Artistes Tunisiennes : Nicène Kossentini, Mouna Karray, Moufida Fedhila. KT Press. ISBN 978-0-9536541-9-2.

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