Presentation of the project :
It was the separation of the skins that led me to reflect on this subject. With the confinement, I've lost one of the most important languages of love. For me, touch is necessary to communicate certain emotions, and transmit them in a complete way. For example, being away from my family, sharing the same environment, to protect them, and the need to make new physical contact with her made me aware of the similarities between the sense of home and the sense of skin. My skin, like my house, protects my life, my inner parts from harm... time and external factors. Today, she's the only organ that can stop Covid 19 from entering my body. Also, it is the place where traces of memory and moments of affection are recorded. My skin and my home come together in being the envelope of all that is fragile and sensitive in me, in its protection . This approach triggered in my mind the ideas of different practices artistic. In this work, I use, to express myself, the earth as a material. It is about to establish a new skin-to-skin contact to reduce my stress and reflect the importance of touch in human relationships. I am therefore also trying to define the skin in its different senses. Thus, I try to create, with the help of the clay flesh, pieces that contain the traces of a warm encounter, a childhood memory, a deep pain,... These pieces will form the elements of an installation. I will create certain connections between them, to allow the appearance of full labor. It's going to be on display on the roof of my house. And after a session of professional photography, I aim to disseminate it by using social networks, social media, and the websites, newspapers, radios and maybe TVs ...
Ferdaws Chamekh biography :
Ferdaws Chamekh is a visual artist, born in Tunis on 9 February 1990. She is originally from southern Tunisia, in the region of Medenine; the place where she lives and works today, and aims to establish her first cultural enterprise. Ferdaws started to know her passion very early. From the age of 3, she entered the world of art thanks to her self-taught mother. The little one revealed a great - sensitivity to shapes and materials in her drawings. For this reason she had the encouragement of her large family, and continued to practice her art in middle and high school clubs and won many national and regional prizes. Since then she has been in contact with the public through her participation in various student exhibitions. After obtaining her baccalaureate in experimental sciences in 2008, she chose to continue her studies at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Nabeul. She specialized in ceramics. And since 2009, Ferdaws started to look for her place in the world of professionals, by participating in some events. In 2011, she obtained her degree with honors, and was selected by the committee of the master at the Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis. She has thus enrolled in a research master's degree in plastic arts. After two years, she obtained her diploma, and started her real professional career. She immediately joined the union of Tunisian plastic artists, and began the realization of various artistic practices in which she participated in several group exhibitions. Now, she is preparing her first personal exhibition, with the support of the Tunisian Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Ferdaws also has 4 years of experience in higher education and professional training. She has taught visual arts subjects in different institutions and has organized several events. She has worked in the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts of Sidi Bouzid and in the Higher Institute of Heritage Crafts of Tunis. She is now part of the Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Medenine. The artist is interested in her practices to the skin in its relationship with the lived and the memory. And she seeks to record in her artistic pieces the traces of an object, a experience, an encounter,... His favourite materials are clay and glass. She generally employs fire work and mixed techniques...
