• Maïmouna Guerresi
• Artist

Maïmouna  Guerresi (b. 1951; Vicenza, Italy) works in a hybrid embrace of ancestry from African, Asian and European cultures, following her conversion to Islam. Her sculptural, almost architectural creations fuse the face and limbs of the subject with the space, some levitating, others bodiless, their veils encompassing an empty expanse, heads floating overhead.  She has exhibited in prominent institutions such as the Venice Biennale (Italian pavilion), Documenta, National Museum of Bamako Mali, Bahrain National Museum, Sharjah Art Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the 13th Cairo Biennale and the Lagos the Lagos Photo Festival, SCoP, Shanghai Center of Photography Shanghai, China, and Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan, among many. Her works are included in private and public collections worldwide, including the Boghossian Foundation, GAM Galleria Arte Moderna Achille Forti, Minneapolis Institute of Art, L.A.C.M.A Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of African, Contemporary Art Al Maaden, and Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.