
Nidhal Chamekh
Le Battement des Ailes C, 2017

Nidhal Chamekh is a visual artist and researcher. He began exhibiting his work at the tender age of …

Though influenced by the popular culture of Tunis, the modern politics of Tunisia, and his experiences living in Europe, Nidhal Chamekh’s artistic practice transcends specific geographic and social subject matter. The artist works in a range of media, including drawing, painting, video, sculpture, and installation; the results, figurative but fragmented, are marked by a chaotic dynamism. Chamekh is drawn to complexity, as evidenced by his transcultural, sociopolitical research and his artistic commitment to macrocosmic and primordial questions regarding beginnings, endings, and the cycle of life and death.


Nidhal Chamekh is a visual artist and researcher. He began exhibiting his work at the tender age of twelve in Tunisia; his adolescent years provided much contemplation he would later come to evoke within his artworks for many years. Traversing and contaminating the demarcations of sculpture, installation, collage, …

Though influenced by the popular culture of Tunis, the modern politics of Tunisia, and his experiences living in Europe, Nidhal Chamekh’s artistic practice transcends specific geographic and social subject matter. The artist works in a range of media, including drawing, painting, video, sculpture, and installation; the results, figurative but fragmented, are marked by a chaotic dynamism. Chamekh is drawn to complexity, as evidenced by his transcultural, sociopolitical research and his artistic commitment to macrocosmic and primordial questions regarding beginnings, endings, and the cycle of life and death.