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Marcel Duchamp talks about an absurd 'readymade'. An art dealer creates a discourse using the idea of the 'readymade'. An art historian talks about her long time relationship observing Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. These personal micro-histories around paradigm shifting artists offers hidden knowledge around the common art historical narrative. While the artist turns over the rocks of the Spiral Jetty, bringing back the experiential quality to an artwork that is mostly known through images.

Amina Zoubir is a visual artist, videast and curator who lives and works between Paris and Algiers. She has a Master’s in Theory and practice of contemporary art and new media from the Université Paris 8 and a DESA in graphic design from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Algiers. In 2010 she published her university research on the video art of Algerian artists as a book, Relation de l’image et du son dans la vidéo contemporaine algérienne : une expèrience en temps reel (Relation of image and sound in contemporary Algerian video: an experience in real time). She is currently pursuing her Ph.d research at the AIAC laboratory (art of images, contemporary art) at Université Paris 8. She was the curator of the contemporary art exhibition La scène algérienne at the Hospice Saint Charles, at Rosny-sur-Seine in 2013, the programmer of Illegal Cinema #113 at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, screened the movie Tahya Ya Didou by Mohammed Zinet, Aubervilliers, 2013, was co-curator of the exhibition of video art, Video killed the radio star at the e.Bannwarth Gallery, Paris, 2012. Her videos and photographs question the notions of the language of the female body and its projection in urban spaces in the Arab world. Her video installations have been exhibited at the 13th Biennale of young European and Mediterranean creators in Bari, Italy and during the 30th Biennale of contemporary art in Pontevedra, Spain. She directed six performance actions in Algerian urban spaces in 2012, Prends ta place (Take your place), for the webdocumentary Un étéà Algers (A Summer in Algiers), produced by Narrative and Une chambre à soi.