After Totality

Over the past few years, Tunisian-Italian artist Monia Ben Hamouda (born 1991 in Milan, Italy) has developed a distinctive artistic universe, presenting her work in major international exhibitions, most recently the 14th Taipei Biennial. Moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration, her practice weaves together Islamic and Western cultural lineages. Using spices associated with medicine, cooking, and ritual across North Africa as a protective gesture, Ben Hamouda translates Islamic architectural forms and ornamental traditions into spatial installations, shaping a distinctly personal artistic vision.