Amie Barouh

Her artistic practice is intimately tied to her personal story and to her desire, motivated by intuition as much as need, to encounter cultures that she feels both close to and distant from. Growing up in a multicultural, binational environment, she quickly identified her desire to build herself through discovery, but also through confrontation with various cultural practices encountered in the public sphere, often at random, spontaneously going as far as finding new families. She organically found out that the most accurate way to narrate her existential quest are experimental documentaries, that she sees as “visual essays” made of memories gathered istinctively, of personal experiences and images depicting the daily life of her loved ones. Recording her own daily life in films, snapshots and notes, she composes a complex and intimate story whose strength lies in its discontinuity, with an aesthetic that she pictures as impressionist, which ties her to painting, her first medium when starting art school. (…).

She presents this archive of the mundane in her latest documentary titled Shuruuk (2024), a sort of spontaneous diary made of fragments, tales of travels with no ending or beginning, in which transpires her fascination with magic, already visible in Bari Mageia, which she here discovers as cognitive manipulation. 

_{Text by Matthieu Lelièvre, for Salon de Montrouge, 2025}