An interview with Zineb Sedira | Apollo Magazine

It’s an unsettling experience to walk into a room in a house that you’ve never visited, owned by a person you’ve never met and to feel as if you know it intimately – not just visually, but physically. Thousands of people have visited Franco-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira’s ‘living room’, which formed one part of her theatrical installation inside the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022. She was the first artist of Algerian descent to represent France and within hours of the exhibition opening, she was pegged as a favourite for the top award. In the end her friend and south London neighbour, Sonia Boyce, who also appears in Sedira’s film Dreams Have No Titles, the central piece in the pavilion, took home the Golden Lion. For Sedira, however, the project was never about winning, it was about ‘friendship, solidarity and the artistic community’.

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