| Born in Sfax, 1976, Nicène Kossentini lives and works in Tunis. Graduate of the fine arts Institute of Tunis and Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg, she followed training courses in the National Studio of the Contemporary art Le Fresnoy and in School of the Image Les Gobelins in France. She focuses her experimental artwork on video which is a poetic interpretation of the fugacity of time and elements. In 2006, she presented her video Return in the Museum of Tunis. Saint Jacques Street was selected for the VII African Meetings of Photography in Bamako in 2007 then presented in the 2nd edition of the International meetings of Photography in Fès 2008. Her video The Disappearance was presented in the Museum of Tunis and the Museum of Boulogne Billancourt in 2007 and 2008. The video Eat With Your Right Hand was presented in The 5th Mediterranean Biennial in Tunis, LiteSide Festival in Amsterdam and the 1st International Video Art Festival in Damascus. Myopia was presented in the XXX Contemporary Art Biennial of Pontevedra, Spain in 2008 and in the Contemporary Art Museum of Oslo in 2009. |