Fatma Cheffi
Fatma Cheffi is a Tunisian independent curator, artist, and cultural worker based in Paris.
Her practice explores language as a conflicted yet fertile terrain. Through writing, voice, and the materiality of words, she investigates its colonial scars and its potential for reclamation. Informed by poetry, rap music, and migration experiences, Cheffi examines the tensions between minoritized and hegemonic languages, between silence and speech.
Her works—whether performative, textual, or visual—move between the intimate and the political, where shifts in meaning become acts of resistance. She seeks to inhabit linguistic margins, allowing unstable, living forms to emerge— echoing the bodies and memories they carry.
Cheffi’s work has been presented at the 15th Lyon Biennale; the IAC – Institut d’art contemporain in Villeurbanne; the CAC – Centre d’art contemporain in Brétigny-sur-Orge; Pickle Bar in Berlin; KADIST in Paris; and more recently at the CAAC – Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain.
