Maya Louhichi
Maya Louhichi is a French-Tunisian visual artist whose work revolves around questions of memory, identity, the notion of trace, and the body. Trained outside academic circuits, she has produced several photographic series on the theme of bodily expression in the contemporary urban world between 2009 and 2014. Her documentary film “Petites histoires enfumées” (Little smoky stories), made in 2015, intertwines intimate testimonies relevant to Tunisian collective memory.
In 2018, the death of her father, the film director Taieb Louhichi, marked a profound turning point in her artistic research. Drawing inspiration from her father’s cinematic legacy, her current work is deeply imbued with it. She explores the theme of memory from various perspectives, whether intimate, collective or linked to specific places.
With her current project “Mareth, un village parmi tant d’autres” (Mareth, a village among others), she extends this legacy and examines the massive emigration from the home country, based on the documentary film “Mon village, un village parmi tant d’autres” (My village, a village among others) (1972) by Taieb Louhichi. This project was awarded the Helping Hands grant from the Tui Care Foundation in late 2023, the same year she also joined the Tunisian collective Bouma.
Her work has been selected for the Rencontres de Bamako – African Biennale of Photography in Mali, Jaou Photo (Tunis), and the 18th Summit of La Francophonie (Djerba) in 2022. She was mentored by artist Randa Maroufi for Passerelles 2022, a program by the association Contemporaines.
This year, she participated in a residency in Morocco organised by Caravane Tighmert, and her book “Et dans la terre, je me souviens” was launched at the Zoème bookstore in Marseille in April 2024. She is a founding member of the artist collective Particle, dedicated to expressing creative voices from North Africa and promoting cultural heritage.
The digital reflection titled INVISIBLE LEGACIES: The Lasting Impact of Colonial Science on Our Perceptions of Beauty and Identity, created by Maya Louhichi, resonates with and responds to the experiences gained during her one-month residency at MUNHAC in Lisbon, Portugal. It not only reflects on the residency itself but also extends into the post-production phase, exploring the ongoing processes and transformations that follow the residency experience.
© Maya Louhichi / CDCD Project, 2025
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