Safia Delta (b. in 1983) is a visual artist based in Marseille, France. Involving a variety of material from immediate to remote environments allows her to develop an autonomy that is part of her feminist approach to the medium. She considers photography as an answer to a need for mending. To reconcile the strata of beings sheltered throughout her lifetime, she activates her subconscious and disrupts temporal limitations.
Her work develops an existential questioning revolving around the construction of identity as experienced by diasporic beings through the intricacies of inherited and personal histories. It also addresses societal issues related to social geographies and technological evolutions.
In 2021, her appeal for pioneering, supportive spaces led her to join the Tilawin Project as a mentor, a platform contributing to the emergence and visibility of female photographers from Algeria and its diaspora. She is now coordinating the programme along with its founder, Liasmine Fodil and she has specially designed the two artworks featured in the exhibition ‘Epilogue : waiting for Omar Gatlato’.
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Tilawin ProjectCOLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2024
Myriad of You, Centre Photographique Marseille, France.
Perspectives 23, Le Cercle, la Chambre, Strasbourg, France.
2023
Perspectives 23, Galerie le Lac Gelé, Arles, France.
Epilogue, Waiting for Omar Gatlato, National Centre of Contemporary Art ‘Le Magasin’, Grenoble, France.
2022
Vantage Point 10, annual exhibition at Sharjah Art Foundation's, Al Hamriyah Studios, United Arab Emirates.
Festival Maghré'bains des Pâquis, ICAM L’olivier book shop, Geneva.
Rhymes from Untold Realms, Geneva Photographic Centre and Djelbana, Bastion Park, Geneve.
2020
Narratives from Algeria, at Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland.
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Revue Macaroni, My Mother is a Stranger (And I love her).
2023
Tilawin Project, 32 page zine, CNAC le Magasin.
2022
Memory I, artist book, auto-edition, 36 pages.
2020
My Mother is a Stranger (And I love her), Fragment Photo Collective annual zine.
2016
Memory, Underdogs Magazine, Issue 11.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
2023
Fisheye magazine.
2022
Gaze magazine, Fast Forward Women.
2015-2020
Der Grief, Phroom, Eyeshot Magazine, Epic Stories.
SELECTIONS
Perspectives 23, training programme for professionalisation, Strasbourg, France.
MENTORING
2021- ongoing
Educator for the Tilawin Project, a mentoring programme supporting female photographers from Algeria and its diaspora.
CURATION
2023
Exhibition “Epilogue : waiting for Omar Gatlato”, videoprojection and zine gathering 21 photographic works.
2022
Jury for Crossroads Programme.
2021 - ongoing
Curation of the work of mentees for the Tilawin Project.
2019 - 2020
Curation of Fragment Photo Collective blog and co-curation of its annual zine.
WRITINGS
2019-2020
Interviews for Fragment Photocollective.
2018
Creation of ‘Intérieur-s’, a series of five essays offering a comparative study of a painting and a photograph.
EDUCATION
2022
Handprint workshop at Emulsion Lab, Paris.
2020-2021
Photography history classes, Jeu de Paume museum, Paris.
2019-2020
Photography classes, Université du Temps Libre, Marseille.