Hichem Merouche (b.1991 in Tunis) is an artist living in Algeria, Tunisia and Greece. Driven by multilingual research, his practice integrates film, sound, transformed objects, photography and writing to probe emotionally and politically charged narratives and objects. Merouche’s work manifests as multidisciplinary installations in which he is the protagonist and the Mediterranean space is a recurring landscape, delving in the complexities of identity, spirituality, and forms of survival.

Merouche’s first solo exhibition Friendly Islands, opened in rhizome (2023). His work was presented in: The Possibility of Not Having Been, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona (2023); En Attendant Omar Gatlato: Epilogue, Le Magasin, Grenoble (2023); Archives des luttes de femmes en Algérie, Documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Publishing Maneuvers Symposium, 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi (2020); Partir avec les murs, Fondation Louis-Moret, Martigny (2018) and FIDMarseille, France (2018). Artist residencies include: Triangles Astérides, Marseille, (2022), Le Cube, Rabat, (2019) and Les Ateliers Sauvages, Algiers (2018).