Bouderbala, Meriem
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Tunisian, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in France from 1972.
Born 30 May 1960, in Tunis.
Painter, engraver.
From 1980 to 1985 Meriem Bouderbala studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Aix en Provence. She lives and works in Nice. Her canvases are filled with wide bands of dark colour intersected by lighter bands. She uses greys, blue-greys, beiges and blacks. The material lets itself go from one stroke to another, evoking the weather, the dust, the sand, the light, the grain of the rock....
