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Ziad Zitoun is visual artist who works in video art, installations and digital arts. Starts his Video artworks in 2004. Following his experimentations with a video dance show Nebula.000, in 2008 he started to develop digital-art pictures and installations with visual art perspectives. Topics and inspirations of Ziad-Helmi Zitoun turn around migrants rights, trans-borders movements, refugees history them artworks speak about humans rights and human condition of people in movements. Ziad-Zitoun searchs visual elements which can create an aesthetic of migrant life and freedom of moving people in a Mediterranean area.
Ziad Zitoun is a contemporary visual artist. He does a interdisciplinary work with video art, installations and mixed-medias. He starts his creations in 2004 with Videoart. He follow with videodance works, photography and mixed-medias documents.
Ziad Zitoun composes about recurrent socials thematics of immigrants & human rights. His semantic turn around topics of migrants rights, trans-borders movements, refugees history...
those works speaks about human rights and condition of people in movement. As a Tunisian immigrant's child living in Europe, he wish to take care about fundamental rights of clandestine people. Grown between two Mediterranean's sea sides, he try to create bridges among communities.
The author lines up with minimal and abstract forms. In that direction he studies about Zelij patterns, stamping & ceramics. Ziad Zitoun mix languages for gathering lines and patterns to allow a social message with a strong visual narration.
Inspirations
Thematics of inspiration by Ziad Zitoun revolves around rights of migrants, trans-borders movements & refugee Asylum. His works speak about familial separation, stigmatization and social invisibility that produce clandestinity life.
Ziad Zitoun gives thoughts on the South-North relations and be testimonies of persons who live without dignity, without fundamental rights (health, work, education). The author speak about them people who try to survive, persecuted only for the fact they are "illegals".
Every year, thousands of people from all over the world, afflicted by economic, social and political hardship. They escape from wars, dictators governments or misery. They migrate to Europe in attempt to attain better living standards. Every day a lot of people perish on the way.
The author studies related social problems and it transcribe it in contemporary art domain for create aesthetic of migration. Art has for centuries been deeply estimated by the presence of immigrant artists and them fresh ideas. Today, more than ever before, the population reflects global patterns of migration, and this is evident in the art add a value of diversity in our contemporary societies.
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about north African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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Art of Dialogue collection - People of the sun - 2010 -
Mediterranean - Shared & Divided is visual art project about in the Mediterranean area. Between Sarajevo, Tunisia, Istanbul and Cairo we promote a dialogue among communities sharing commons backgrounds. In a actual fragmentation of Mediterranean belt due of an hard european migration politic, artists propose new visual artworks for contribute to pluralism, diversity and multiculturalism dialogue. This collection transcribe the personal meditative state of humans in front of the sea. A intimate link between individuals and the mediterranean sea. this contact create a deep reflexion, an intense feeling of freedom and peace. Cause the skyline create a sensation of a space beyond mesure, it's usual to meet mediterranean people in that state of meditation. A personal conection with yourself, your world, your life. Mediterranean gates try to express them fellings and open a intim window between people and the sea. 70x100cm
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about north African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about north African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about north African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about North African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about North African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about North African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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"European borders / African misery", Other/ Multi disciplinary, Serigraphy, 2011, 30 x 40 cm -
A theme about North African revolution and European borders. With a process of pictogram as simple visual arts elements, Ziad Zitoun create aesthetic of contemporary realities of African deportation due of an hard European migrant politic.
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