Montréal, March 5, 2025 – The Conseil des arts de Montréal is pleased to announce that it will host the exhibition Le corps n’en finit jamais de dire, featuring works by artists Awa, Dexter Barker-Glenn, Oumayma Ben Tanfous, Bea Parsons, Élisabeth Perrault, Alex Pouliot, Tristan Réhel and Sfiya, from the opening date on March 5 through April 26, 2025.
Berirouche Feddal’s curatorial approach explores the body as a space traversed by history, a living memory, a territory under tension. It is stretched under the weight of history, hollowed out by oblivion, burdened with the acts we expect of it. It archives, it resists, and it continues to speak out, even when there are attempts to silence it. The body becomes a trace, evidence, a frontier, a language. It migrates, resists, fades and reappears, swinging between memory and oblivion, constraint and transformation.
What we think is fixed is already slipping away. What we try to erase reappears elsewhere. And yet, something remains and resonates.
About Berirouche Feddal
Berirouche Feddal’s practice explores themes such as African popular culture, African utopia, cultural traces of the mythical and of religion, postcolonial studies and the indigenization of narratives, as well as experiences related to his own migration. As a transdisciplinary artist, he uses a variety of media including printmaking, photography, woodcut and performance to explore notions of history, identity and culture. His artistic approach encourages contemplation of the complexity of identity within the diaspora, questioning his own position amid an ever-changing cultural heritage.
Born in Algeria in 1996, Berirouche Feddal is an artist of Kabyle origin who lives and works in Montréal. He graduated from Concordia University’s Print Media Department in 2020 and has presented several solo and duo exhibitions, including at L’Imagier in Gatineau (2024), Maison des arts de Laval (2022), Conseil des arts de Montréal (2022), Bradley Ertaskiran in Montréal (2022), Afternoon Projects in Vancouver (2022) and La Conserverie Marrakech in Morocco (2019). Feddal also exhibited at the Off Biennale d’art africain contemporain in Dakar, Senegal (2022) and collaborated with Art Souterrain for a presentation on Ubisoft’s exterior facades in Montréal (2021). His work can be found in the collections of Pointe-à-Callière Museum, TD Bank, Hydro-Québec, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and Global Affairs Canada (Government of Canada).
About the Conseil des arts de Montréal
Offering various forms of assistance, the Conseil des arts de Montréal identifies, supports and recognizes artistic innovation and creative expression in all their diversity to promote Montreal’s artists and arts organizations active in creation, production and presentation. Since 1956, the Conseil has played a unique role as a catalyst for this artistic ecosystem, helping make Montreal one of the world’s great cultural metropolises.
