Three Tunisian Women Artists

Michele Cohen Hadria interviews Nicene Kossentini, Mouna Karray and Moufida Fedhila three women artists living and working in Tunisia today. The interviews discuss the work of these artists since the revolution and feature a discussion of artistic creation against the political backdrop of contemporary Tunisia. The interviews featured are accompanied by photographs of the artists' works.Born in Tunisia in 1950, Michele Cohen Hadria is independent art critic, living in Paris. She studied art, in Roma (Italia), then experimental film, at Paris Sorbonne. She contributed to various catalogues for artists and to various art journal in France and abroad such as: ArtPress, Jeune Cinema(Paris), n.paradoxa, Third Text (London) Tema Celeste (Milano/ Italie) ETC, Ciel Variable (Montreal/Canada) Camera Austria (Graz/ Austria). She dedicated herself to examine Arab world works' artists since 1998 and she organized together with the scholar Nicole Brenez a series of screenings around New Arab experimental films at La cinematheque Francaise, Paris, (2003). Now she has dedicated herself to postcolonial issues in general and as well postcolonial gender studies in particular.