INDIGO
HAOUA
HABRÉ
Silent truth
21x29,7 cm (x84)
Painting on paper, photography
2025
Part of a diptych with The Ritual, this work challenges the everyday staging of the body and imposed norms.
Through photographs and paintings, the artist reveals what society seeks to hide: fragments of marked, forgotten skin.
The piece stands as a visual manifesto, celebrating the raw, living body against normative erasure.
Folds of skin and paper merge into a sensitive surface, each fragment asserting a presence that escapes control.
By revealing what’s hidden, the work gives voice to the deep, silenced traces of the living.
Silent truth
21x29,7 cm (x84)
Painting on paper, photography
2025
Together with Silent Truth, The Ritual forms a diptych exploring the tension between normalized images and what they exclude.
The installation recreates an intimate space : sink, mirror, makeup traces, revealing a daily ritual of correction and conformity.
The cosmetic gesture becomes a performance of imposed norms, exposing the subtle violence of aesthetic expectations and the erasure of bodily truth.
A live performance, in which the artist enacts the ritual, deepens the critical dimension of the piece.
The Ritual
Installation / Performance
2025
Out of body experience
Mixed medias
2025
Transmutation
Paint
2025
Cellophane wrapped heart IV
21x29,7
Painting on paper
2025
Making love
21x29,7 cm
Painting on paper
2025
My skin is alive
70x100 cm
Painting on paper
2025
Fragment of self
21x29,7cm (x60)
Photographs and fabrics
2020
Fragment of self
21x29,7cm (x60)
Photographs and fabrics
2020
To the curl of my hair
29,7cmx42cm (x5)
Photographs printed on fabric
2018
Ubuntu
165x130cm
Mixed media
2024
Ubuntu
165x130cm
Mixed media
2024
Our Bodies lie I.
Alive installation
2023
Our Bodies lie II.
Alive installation
2023
According to a survey published by IFOP in June 2017, 60% of women say they don't like their bodies, compared with a third of men. The same survey reveals that 70% of women feel self-conscious about certain parts of their body.
In Our bodies lie, I explore the distorted vision we can have of our own image. The mirror, other people's opinions and our inner thoughts all contribute to shaping a false perception of ourselves.
Our Bodies lie III.
Alive Installation
2023
One in five woman with textured hair feel social pressure to straighten their hair - twice as many as other women.
Textured hair is judge as less beautiful, less sexy and less professional than smooth hair
Une femme sur cinq ayant des cheveux frisés ou crépus ressent une pression social pour lisser ses cheveux. Soit deux fois plus que les autres femmes.
Les cheveux crépus sont jugés moins beaux, moins sexy et moins professionnels que les cheveux lissés.
Hair anxiety
0,5x0,5cm
Photograph
2024
Meditative braids
Art Performance
2017
This performance takes place in two acts; in the first I go to a hair salon where I get my hair braided for several hours. The second takes place a week later; I undo the braids.
During both stages, I observe my image gradually changing, and a new self is born: once the hairstyle is finished, and once it's removed.
To what extent does this physical transformation influence my mind?
Through this performance, I question the importance we attach to our body and image, and the impact it can have on our identity.
Softness of my Palm
21x29,7cm
Photograph on reworked paper
2024
The other Softness of my Palm
21x29,7cm
Photograph on reworked paper
2024
Softness of my Palm
21x29,7cm
Photograph on reworked paper
2024
Cellophane heart II
50x65cm
Mixed media
2024
What is underneath my skin ?
Photographs printed on reworked paper
21x29,7cm (x9)
2023
Cellophane heart III
50x65cm
Mixed media
2024
Deep dark waves of my body
Installation
Fabric
2021
The elephant skin you don't like
29.7x42cm
Photographs printed on fabric
2020
The Elephant skin you don't like
29,7x42cm/21x29,7cm
2020