Fredj Moussa

Fredj Moussa, born in 1992 in France, is a visual artist who lives and works between France and Tunisia.

He graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2018. Fredj Moussa will be resident at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2019. He studied at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains from 2021 to 2023.

Fredj Moussa’s work is composed of films and structures, somewhere between sculpture and a cinematic presentation device.

He has exhibited his work at Nuit Blanche in Paris, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia (USA), Izmir Mediterranean Biennial (TUR), Cabane B (CHE), Les Brasseurs in Liège (BEL) and Loop Fair Barcelona (ESP), where he received the CIFRA prize in 2023.

His project at Villa Médicis

His residency project draws its inspiration from pre-Islamic tales, taken from several short stories in Boccaccio’s Decameron. The story takes place a thousand years ago on an island, the Emirate of Sicily, or more commonly Sikilya. The film, composed of wearable sculptures, proposes an exploration between the reality of the island and the story, weaving links between personal life and universal tales. The Saracens become the driving force behind the plot, while the tale acts as a catalyst. Sikilya arouses his interest as a liminal territory, one where the distant and the near, the past and the present, meet.

Portrait © Fredj Moussa