RESIDENCY

Nabila Halim

Artist

Research residency

04.2025 - 05.2025

Photo : Laure-Hélène Pélissot.

Selebe Yoon is pleased to announce Nabila Halim’s research residency in Dakar in April-May 2025, for a duration of 6 weeks. This residency is part of a partnership exchange with MOUSSEM, Nomadic Arts Centre, Brussels.

Residency

“My current research projects revolve around the notion of matrimony, intergenerational transmission and the role played by women in preserving know-how and culture. Sensitive to issues of feminist and ecological struggle, I am currently experimenting with collective artistic dynamics as a tool for empowerment.”

- Nabila Halim

‘Home is where the music is’ is the title of Nabila Halim's residency project. Through this work, the artist explores the notion of heritage and its transmission, as well as the essential role played by women in conserving knowledge and preserving cultural identities.

Using a variety of media, including installations, DJ sets and culinary performances, Nabila gives shape to her ideas, reconstructing the architecture of memory and a ceremony of care between women.

These practices provide her with a variety of languages through which she can tell us an intimate story: that of her heritage and how it might resonate in a new territory. The public is thus invited to enjoy an immersive sensory experience through which they discover motifs, gestures, and stories. They are immersed in the domestic world of the grandmother's house, a matriarchal figure and the starting point for the artist's work.

An invitation to make community and celebrate these women together.

Biography

`Nabila Halim is a Moroccan visual artist currently living in Brussels.

Nabila Halim's work is based on her intimate sphere, addressing the body, its alteration, and its place in physical and mental territories. Her latest works focus more specifically on her experience of migration. A universe and notions that she develops in different contexts, and using different media (photography, video, installation, writing), oscillating between a direct grip on her intimacy and metaphorical displacements.

Alongside her artistic productions, Nabila works as a programmer and organizer for the Locomotion festival (2018 & 2019). She is also a founding member of the Noss-Noss (FR) collective and the Coming Soon (BE) collective, which puts together culinary, musical and visual programs sensitive to collective questions of the transculturality(ies) of cuisine, its histories and its sharing.

In partnership with MOUSSEM, Nomadic Arts Centre, Brussels.