Déborder le fleuve, nouer la mémoire

Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
London
Alger
Paris

Berirouche Feddal
studio@berirouche.ca

Born in Rouiba in 1996 and raised between Algiers and Irdjen, his parents’ Kabyle village, Berirouche Feddal was ten when he landed in Pointe-aux-Trembles, at the eastern tip of Tiohtià:ke. He now works between Montréal, London and Algiers, and is pursuing an MFA at Goldsmiths. His practice is a souk where nothing settles: abstract and figurative, object and performance, war and colour, Pan-Africanism and its violence. Stadium chants become protest songs; gold and wheat ask to be worshipped. He works with what time leaves behind: rusted objects, henna rusting in the elders' hair, relics of childhood that hide inherited horrors. Kardoune, devotional symbols and burned wood carry the voices of parents and villagers, the afterlives of colonial history, the ghosts that refuse to leave. His colour began underfoot, on his grandmother's carpets. His work talks to the dead, leaves space empty, and allows itself to forget.

CV

PRESS

Dans les plis du souvenir, les couleurs se taisentVie des arts, no. 279, Winter 2025VisitesText: Dounia Bouzidi

Fleurs fanées: Anna Binta Diallo et Berirouche FeddalVie des arts, no. 275, Summer 2024Créations

L'art de recycler des bouts de muséeLe Devoir, April 24, 2024Text: Stéphane Baillargeon

La révolution des couleursLe Devoir, March 30, 2024Text: Amélie RevertPhoto: Adil Boukind

Dans l'atelier de Berirouche FeddalEsse arts + opinions, no. 110, AgricultureText: Nicholas DawsonPhotos: Alexandra Dumais

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la clarté creuse les montagnes, 2026Musée d'art de JolietteCurated by Ariane De BloisWith asinnajaq, Nathalie Batraville, Stina Baudin, Amanda Boulos, Shannon Garden-Smith, Frantz Patrick Henry and Tyson Houseman

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Afrotopos, 2025Stewart Hall GalleryCurated by Diane GistalWith Damien Ajavon, Delali Cofie, Anna Binta Diallo, Marie-Danielle Duval, ibiyanε and Roxane Mbanga

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Textile Beyond Craft, 2023Round table: Reflections on the Montreal SceneCentre de design UQAMModerated by Christina ContandriopoulosWith Édith-Anne Pageot and Michaëlle Sergile

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Spoliation du souk, 2022Conseil des arts de MontréalCurated by Michelle Caron and Colas Eko

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Conjuguer les identités qui nous habitentIn/Tension, The Power Plant, 2023Hosted by Diane GistalWith Anna Binta Diallo42 min

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Déborder le fleuve, nouer la mémoire 2026

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Part of Briser la glace / Splitting Ice, the 12th edition of Manif d’art – The Québec City Biennial, curated by Didier Morelli. Presented within the biennial’s Young Curators program and curated by Dounia Bouzidi, the exhibition follows the St. Lawrence River across three sites, bringing together installations by Berirouche Feddal, Tyra Maria Trono and Amanda Préval that explore intimate and diasporic stories, ancestral knowledge and the gestures passed down through generations.

At Place des Canotiers, I presented Mon Bougainvillier est dans un sommeil profond, Mémoires d’une Double Hache et Arme tendue, récit fané.

Place des Canotiers, Québec City, Canada
February 28 – April 19, 2026

Déborder le fleuve, nouer la mémoire
Curated by Dounia Bouzidi

With Tyra Maria Trono (Station de la Côte) and Amanda Préval (Pavillon du Quai des Cageux)

Presented with the Commission de la capitale nationale du Québec

Déborder le fleuve, nouer la mémoireInstallation view, Place des Canotiers, Québec City, 2026Curated by Dounia Bouzidi, Manif d'art 12Photo: Studio Arago, Catherine Tetreault. Courtesy of Manif d'art 2026