TAKE YOUR PLACE A SUMMER AT ALGIERS

In Algeria, men and women live separately in public spaces. They do not interact much outside their homes as women are not seen in public spaces which is becoming, unofficially or officially, reserved for men.

In Algeria, men and women live more and more separately in public spaces. They do not interact much outside their homes and very often, women are not welcome in public spaces. More and more spaces are becoming – unofficially or officially – reserved for men. I want to question the absence of women in public spaces. I perform actions within these spaces with my camera and impose my feminine presence into the man’s world. In these six short sequences, I worked with the image and sound as an allegory of the separation of women and men in the Algerian urban public space.