Lina Ben Rejeb
1985 (Kelibia)
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Artist's webSite
Lina Ben Rejeb studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in 2011, and has since exhibited in Tunisia and France. Taking the language of notation as a starting point for her explorations, her research builds on the tensions between visibility and legibility and the serendipitous shapes and patterns revealed through layering and partial obliteration. Choosing photocopying and painting as her primary techniques, she approaches texts as a pictorial surface. For Ben Rejeb, text becomes a site of transformation, choosing to translate entire written works into series of underdulating, monochromatic forms. In this, a new kind of visual language emerges.
Ben Rejeb’s artworks establish a dialogue around the accessibility and transmission of language, for example in any translation of Arabic to Latin, parlance and phraseology will inadvertently become lost in communication. In rendering a language that in essence is unreadable, Ben Rejeb draws attention to the very inevitability of distortion.
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Artist's webSite
Lina Ben Rejeb studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in 2011, and has since exhibited in Tunisia and France. Taking the language of notation as a starting point for her explorations, her research builds on the tensions between visibility and legibility and the serendipitous shapes and patterns revealed through layering and partial obliteration. Choosing photocopying and painting as her primary techniques, she approaches texts as a pictorial surface. For Ben Rejeb, text becomes a site of transformation, choosing to translate entire written works into series of underdulating, monochromatic forms. In this, a new kind of visual language emerges.
Ben Rejeb’s artworks establish a dialogue around the accessibility and transmission of language, for example in any translation of Arabic to Latin, parlance and phraseology will inadvertently become lost in communication. In rendering a language that in essence is unreadable, Ben Rejeb draws attention to the very inevitability of distortion.