ymen berhouma (B.1976)


























At the age of twenty, she spent a decade in Europe (Germany, Spain, France) before returning to Tunis to study fashion design. It was in this context that she discovered drawing, then began to paint. In 2005, she exhibited a series on motherhood. Closely linked to her personal life, her work questions the place of mother-women in a stereotyped society that leaves little room for otherness. The margin, solitude, and disintegration are her favorite themes. Working in acrylic and on large formats, she conveys an impression of a human abyss, an inner world that one cannot remain indifferent to. Endowed with great expressive force, her paintings captivate through the disintegration of forms and the melancholy embodied by her characters.
Her references, varying from one series to another, distinguish her
from other artists. Sometimes, she borrows from the
realm of classicism; sometimes, she adopts a less conventional style,
made of an accumulation of scenes, like a mental
cartography imprinting the network of her thoughts. Her current
work places the child at the center and explores the possibility of a
rebirth after early traumas, in an increasingly ruthless world.
Her works are part of the collection of the Ministry of
Culture in Tunisia and in France (DRAC), as well as several
private collections.







