Zoulikha Bouabdellah

Zoulikha Bouabdellah (born 20 June 1977) is a Russian-born contemporary artist of Algerian descent.

[1] The daughter of Hassen Bouabdellah [fr], a film director and author, and Malika Dorbani, former head of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, she was born in Moscow and grew up in Algiers.

She studied at the Ecole nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise, graduating in 2002.

[2] Her work explores the blending of cultures and globalization, religion, language, and intimacy as well as the female condition.

It incorporates sculpture, photography, video and drawing,[2] and she often contrasts traditional trappings of religion, e.g., prayer rugs, with symbols of modernity.