Embracing shifts in light, material, and movement, Nadia Guerroui weaves a subtle intimacy with what is imperceptible and evanescent. She imagines new spaces, conditions, and registers for (re-)encountering and attuning ourselves to the (in-)visible environment that surrounds us. This poetics of attention moves across a wide range of media, thinking with the fovea or phosphenes, among other ever-expanding sites of perceptual experience. Her refined inquiries into physical phenomena carry an openness to beautiful accidents and sensory drift, approaching processes often associated with scientific research not as instruments of mastery, but as conditions through which knowledge, vision, and attention are recalibrated. With a desire to expand observations and meanings, her relation to technology unfolds as a quiet reorientation within economies of attention shaped by speed, capture, and distraction. Distinct from currents that harness and steer the gaze, her practice invites rigorous, attentive engagement, deliberately resisting the spectacular and the instant consumption of images and sensations.

Ariane Sutthavong

Nadia Guerroui (1988, Toulouse, France) was selected for Coming People Prize at S.M.A.K. Museum (Ghent, Belgium) in 2014. She also exhibited at KM 21 Kunstmuseum (The Hague, Netherlands) and became the laureate of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Award in 2020. 

Her work has been included amongst others at CAB Fondation (BE), Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum (BE), PS Project Space (NL), Spring/Break Art Show (US), La Centrale Art Center (BE), Le Consulat (FR), Bozar - Palais des Beaux Arts (BE), Kunstenfestival Watou (BE), Cloud Seven Fondation (BE), Belfius Art Collection (BE), Resonance of Biennale de Lyon (FR), Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (BE), Tale of A Tub (NL), Villa Empain - Boghossian Fondation (BE). 

In 2020 S.M.A.K. Museum (BE) commissioned Otium, an outdoor installation in a Park in Menen (BE). In 2022 Cloud Seven Fondation (BE) commissioned Otium - Brussels’ Clouds, a permanent outdoor installation on the rooftop of the fondation. 

Her recent personal/duo exhibitions include : More Than You Could Ever Know (Around Video, Brussels, Belgium 2023), Helene Appel >< Nadia Guerroui (OV Project, Brussels, Belgium, 2023), The Other Sleeps in All Things Around (Wonnerth Dejaco Gallery, Vienna Austria, 2021), Card Draw (Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2019), Palimpsest (Art Institute Shibukawa Gallery, Shibukawa, Japan, 2018), Blink (DAC, Dolceaqua, Italy, 2017) and Impostor Syndrom (SNAP Projects Gallery, Lyon, France, 2016).