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views of tunisia Diana Lui
Diana Lui’s photographies were displayed at the exhibition L’Envers des Corps that took place
at the Arab World Institute in Paris.
This series of women portraits has been completed through chance encounters during her
stay in Tunisia. They are saleswomen, chambermaids or architects and have worn, for the
photograph, one of the traditional Tunisian costumes that families or connoisseurs keep away
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from the dangers of a social and political crisis.
iana LUI is a French-Belgian of Malaysian Chinese origin photographer, artist
and filmmaker. Because of the political and economical instability in her
native country, her parents send her to Los Angeles where she studies for 12
years. She attends the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), then
obtains in 1992 her degree in Fine Arts and Photography at the famous Art
Center College of Design in Pasadena before moving to Europe in 1993.
Diana LUI is represented in the most prestigious places in the world of
photography. Her portraits have been exposed in 2003 at the International Festival of Photography in Ping
Yao (3rd edition) in China and in Beijing at the Millenium Center for Contemporary Art. Diana Lui is the
winner of the 20th Scholarship of Talent (2003, France) and selected for the Kodak Prize of Photographic
Critic 2003. The quality of her photographic approach and her ability to express moments filled with
intimacy also earned her to be selected for the HSBC prize of photography in 2008.
From 2009 to 2012, she organizes personal and collective exhibitions, sees her works purchased by the
public domain (BNF in Paris, Museo Bellas Arte in Caracas, Fine Arts museum in Canton...) and is regularly
exposed or bought in the United States, in China, in England, in South-East Asia (Malaysia and Singapour),
in Belgium, in Estonia, in Germany, in Mexico, in Venezuela and in France. Her most ambitious photographic
project, started 20 years ago, consists of travelling all around the world with her 20x25 camera in order to
make « intimate, psychological and anthropological » black and white portraits. She also uses ancient
techniques such as the platinum/palladium noble process and the photoengraving for her portraits.
The artist is presented by the Sponte Gallery since 2009. I
Thanks
Ibrahim Mouadhen et Adel El Mnouchi, costumes and traditional jewels Tunisian collectors ; Noura et Slah Smaoui,
architect who created the Ken Space, a place for artists residency inspired by the Tunisian architectural tradition ; Samia
Kamarti, former curator of the National Library of Tunis, co-author of the work « Itinerary of Knowledge in Tunisia » ;
Wassim Gohzlani , creator of the House of Image in Tunis ; the Union Syndicale Interprofessionnelle du Cheval (USIC)
and the Napolitan designer suDesign Arredi.
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Fatima & Baha
Nationalité : (Fatma) algérienne d’origine oranaise ; (Baha) tunisienne de Tunis
Histoire personnelle : (Fatma) divorcée de son mari tunisien, espère se remarier et reconstruire sa vie avec une petite famille
en Tunisie ; (Baha) n’a pas pu terminer ses études en économie. Les deux sont en tenue de travail.
Métier : (Fatma) femme de ménage le jour et hôtesse d’accueil le soir ; (Baha) vendeuse au fondouk el Attarine à la Médina de Tunis.
Lieu : une maison bourgeoise, Médina de Tunis
Diana lui – 2013 - chambre photographique 20x25cm tirage argentique n/b baryté 1.12 X 1.40 M 1/7 galerie Sponte 2013
Les tirages sont réalisés par l’atelier Choi
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