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.

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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
VIDEOS
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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
PODCAST
Conjuguer les identités qui nous habitentIn/Tension, The Power Plant, 2023Hosted by Diane GistalWith Anna Binta Diallo42 min
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Forehead Kiss 2022
Forehead Kiss is a tribute to my grandmother, Farez Aldjia, and to the women of her generation in Kabylia, deeply affected by the industrial and social transformations of the late twentieth century.

Every time I saw my grandmother, I kissed her on the forehead; the series takes its title from that gesture. After she died in 2021, I began digitizing the rugs she had woven. Made from recycled materials, they carry the marks of time and a visual identity of their own. They bear witness to a craft passed down through generations by Kabyle women, many of whom had no access to formal education but carried on ancestral weaving techniques.

Printed on fabric, the digitized rugs were installed on the exterior of Ubisoft’s Mile End studio. The series looks at the impact of industrialization, notably the arrival of petrochemicals and plastic in the 1970s, on craft and on ways of consuming in Kabylia.

Berirouche FeddalUbisoft Montréal

Façade of the Mile End studio, corner of Saint-Viateur and Saint-Dominique streets, Montréal, Canada
March 7 – May 31, 2022

Presented on the façade of Ubisoft’s studio in the Mile End.



Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End
Forehead Kiss2022Digitized rugs printed on fabricFaçade of Ubisoft Montréal, Mile End


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