Chouf

Eliana Kirkcaldy

Resident
01.07.2026 - 31.07.2026

Resident
01.04.2026 - 01.05.2026

Medici Residency

Literature

Musical composition

Biography

Chouf (1993, Algeria) is a multidisciplinary artist combining literature, music, performance and sound creation. A former specialized educator trained at the Institut Régional du Travail Social, her work is rooted in nine years of fieldwork and research into drug addiction and parenthood. Through poetry, spoken word, sentimental raï and electronic music, she explores exile, memory and emancipation. She has performed at the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Villa Noailles, Fondation Fiminco, Atelier Médicis and the Venice Biennale (2025), as well as in Geneva, Rome, Abidjan and Berlin. An author, she will publish Vie mort vie in 2025 with Editions Tumulte.

Chouf’s residency project, GSM – Génération sacrifiée : Mémoires, looks at the social history of the spread of heroin and HIV in working-class immigrant communities in France. Drawing on a vast corpus of sound archives and collected narratives, the project explores the mechanisms of invisibilization, stigmatization and institutional abandonment that marked this generation. By combining writing, research and sound creation, it aims to restore the memories of these communities and propose a critical and embodied reading of this history.

Literature, Musical composition

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