Rahim Rabia's journey began where many of our own did: Tumblr. As you scroll through his body of work, each image evokes a striking language reminiscent of a film still. They prompt the viewer to ask, Who is this character, and what is their story? The self-taught Algerian photographer, now based in Paris, has crafted a body of work that combines emotional intimacy with a cinematic sensibility, often capturing spontaneous and authentic moments from everyday life.| Dazed MENA
In the hushed geometries of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, amid the heavy silences of history and the noise of global turmoil, Chalisée Naamani's new exhibition Octogone opens like a quiet invocation. The Franco-Iranian artist, whose work consistently straddles the personal and the political, has composed a spatial and symbolic reverie—at once installation, procession, and arena—where bodies are sculpted, histories are contested, and clothing becomes both witness and weapon.| Dazed MENA