The B7L9 Art Centre is proud to present the first Tunisian exhibition Aisha by Yumna Al-Arashi, runs until July 31.
The entire top floor of the centre will be transformed—for the very first time—into an intimate and contemplative environment. Visitors will be invited to reflect on heritage, memory, and identity through the ancestral and symbolic art of women’s tattooing.
Aisha, Al-Arashi’s debut monograph—named in honour of her great-grandmother, unfolds as a three-year journey spanning the Dahar Mountains of southern Tunisia to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In search of meaning behind the tattoos once inked on her great-grandmother’s body, Al-Arashi delves into the layers of a matriarchal tradition marked by silence, erasure, and resilience.
Rejecting the extractive logic of photographic selection, Aisha features every single image captured throughout the journey—392 pages of luminous portraits and moments.
Al-Arashi challenges photography’s colonial legacy and the reductive impulses of Western archiving. Through fluid sequencing and a poetic, collaborative gaze, she reclaims image-making as a space of encounter, empathy, and agency—a cinematic and radical act of remembrance.
AISHA, Published by Edition Patrick Frey
Softcover, 392 pages, 320 color images
23.2 × 16.5 cm
