Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
London
Alger
Paris
Berirouche Feddal
studio@berirouche.ca

Born in Rouiba in 1996 and raised between Algiers and Irdjen, his parents’ Kabyle village, Berirouche Feddal was ten when he landed in Pointe-aux-Trembles, at the eastern tip of Tiohtià:ke. He now works between Montréal, London and Algiers, and is pursuing an MFA at Goldsmiths. His practice is a souk where nothing settles: abstract and figurative, object and performance, war and colour, Pan-Africanism and its violence. Stadium chants become protest songs; gold and wheat ask to be worshipped. He works with what time leaves behind: rusted objects, henna rusting in the elders' hair, relics of childhood that hide inherited horrors. Kardoune, devotional symbols and burned wood carry the voices of parents and villagers, the afterlives of colonial history, the ghosts that refuse to leave. His colour began underfoot, on his grandmother's carpets. His work talks to the dead, leaves space empty, and allows itself to forget.

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PRESS
Dans les plis du souvenir, les couleurs se taisentVie des arts, no. 279, Winter 2025VisitesText: Dounia Bouzidi
Fleurs fanées: Anna Binta Diallo et Berirouche FeddalVie des arts, no. 275, Summer 2024Créations
L'art de recycler des bouts de muséeLe Devoir, April 24, 2024Text: Stéphane Baillargeon
La révolution des couleursLe Devoir, March 30, 2024Text: Amélie RevertPhoto: Adil Boukind
Dans l'atelier de Berirouche FeddalEsse arts + opinions, no. 110, AgricultureText: Nicholas DawsonPhotos: Alexandra Dumais
VIDEOS
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la clarté creuse les montagnes, 2026Musée d'art de JolietteCurated by Ariane De BloisWith asinnajaq, Nathalie Batraville, Stina Baudin, Amanda Boulos, Shannon Garden-Smith, Frantz Patrick Henry and Tyson Houseman
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Afrotopos, 2025Stewart Hall GalleryCurated by Diane GistalWith Damien Ajavon, Delali Cofie, Anna Binta Diallo, Marie-Danielle Duval, ibiyanε and Roxane Mbanga
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Textile Beyond Craft, 2023Round table: Reflections on the Montreal SceneCentre de design UQAMModerated by Christina ContandriopoulosWith Édith-Anne Pageot and Michaëlle Sergile
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Spoliation du souk, 2022Conseil des arts de MontréalCurated by Michelle Caron and Colas Eko
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Conjuguer les identités qui nous habitentIn/Tension, The Power Plant, 2023Hosted by Diane GistalWith Anna Binta Diallo42 min
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La Spoliation du Souk 2022
The Conseil des arts de Montréal offered artist Colas Eko carte blanche to invite an artist of his generation to exhibit in the mezzanine of the Maison du Conseil. Eko selected Berirouche Feddal, whose work draws on popular culture, traces of myth and religion, colonial history and his own migration story. Feddal works from his own life and memory, mixing discoveries, anecdotes and, at times, revolt. He traces his Amazigh origins through a collection of biographical photographs, blending past and present in a body of work that can be seen as fragmented self-portraits, evoking the fragility of memories and the marks left by our past experiences.

In La Spoliation du Souk, his work draws connections between artifacts from the past that bear witness to the dexterity and ingenuity of agrarian peoples, on the one hand, and their counterparts from the world of knockoffs and mass production, on the other. Feddal revisits selected objects from souks around the world to reinvent and transform their forms and techniques, while questioning the artisan’s place in the contemporary souk. The work also looks at the arrival of petrochemicals in the practices of his grandmother, which changed ways of making and consuming in Kabylia, as elsewhere in the world. Beyond the effects of cultural exchange on the traditional objects of the Mediterranean Basin, the exhibition explores how these ancient objects have been appropriated in a contemporary context and circulated around the world.

The two artists established a dialogue touching on both their personal practices and the venue itself, the Maison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, whose heritage architecture becomes the setting for the works. The mezzanine becomes a discursive extension of the works, a space of dialogue where ideas, forms and objects come together.

Text: Colas EkoMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal
Mezzanine, Montréal, Canada
September 1 – October 26, 2022

Curated by Colas Eko
Carte blanche from the Conseil des arts de Montréal

Special thanks to Marie-Michèle Cron, Cultural Advisor, Digital Arts and Visual Arts

Thanks also to Colas Eko, Hugo Couturier, Director of Communications and Partnerships, and Elisa Desoer, Communications Project Manager, Conseil des arts de Montréal

Announcement, Conseil des arts de Montréal
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko
La Spoliation du SoukMaison du Conseil des arts de Montréal, 2022Curated by Colas Eko


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