Halfway between photography and painting, between Africa and the West: this is where Maya Inès Touam's works are placed.
Born in France of Algerian parents, Maya Inès Touam claims the point of view of a granddaughter of emigrants, to build her work between the shores of the Mediterranean, revealing an identity both intimate and foreign. A graduate of the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2013, she conducts anthropological and dreamlike research, using different media (photographs, drawings, sculptures, etc.) and personal or symbolic objects. In 2017, she received an award from the Alliances Foundation in Morocco. In 2021, during a residency at the H Foundation in France, she extended her research to the diasporas of the African continent in the country, offering a postcolonial look at immigration.
Recently she exhibited at Les Rencontres de la photography, the Institute of Islamic Cultures and Museum of Immigration History to present works with western cultural references and imprint by her Algerian roots.