Yasmina Benabderrahmane

Born in 1983 in Rueil-Malmaison, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
A French artist of Algerian-Moroccan origin, Yasmina Benabderrahmane graduated from ENSBA Paris in 2009 and from the Studio national - Le Fresnoy in 2015.

She works with film and analogue photography in an experimental approach, halfway between documentary and filmed diary, between tradition and modernity, using both still and moving images. She has been awarded several prizes, grants and residencies for her research and creative work, and takes part in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and abroad.

Revelation Photo 2017 - Winner of the Prix Le Bal Jeune Création with Adagp 2019 for her multimedia installation La Bête, un conte moderne. In 2021, she will take on her first national photographic commission ‘Regards du Grand Paris - Year 6’ (Cnap - Ateliers Médicis) for her project Glory Hole. In 2022-2023, she will be a resident at the Villa Médicis, Académie de France in Rome. In 2024, Yasmina will take part in a residency programme in the Saudi desert for her research into anthropomorphic landscapes with the Alliance Française for Al-Ûla, with the Sigg Art Foundation. Yasmina Benabderrahmane is currently pursuing her Roman project Carne vale, lotta lavora come un fascista thanks to the ‘Mur d'images’ research grant from the Institut pour la Photographie de Lille, which questions light and its flow, both digital and organic, the tool, through its consumption. She is currently experimenting with AI and its algorithms, as well as the Archive and the ingestion of images.

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