Lydia Haddag is an art historian and curator whose research focuses on the social and cultural history of modern art in the Maghreb, with particular attention to artistic collectives of the twentieth century. She received her PhD in Art History from Panthéon-Sorbonne University and holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Management from Sciences Po. She is the author of La Génération du Môle d’Alger (2022). She currently serves as curator of the North Africa and Middle East collections at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris.
As if intoxicated with beauty, the letter seeks to surpass its utilitarian role and its function as a conventional sign of the alphabet; it aspires to become a plastic expression . . . and succeeds magnificently. . . Elsewhere, words become obstinate labyrinths in which solids and voids hold each other in balance, where shadow…
