Discover the contemporary work of Ridha DHIB

Born in Sousse, Tunisia in 1966, I graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulon and have lived in Paris since 1991. For a long time, painting was my medium of choice before I embraced a more heterogeneous and rhizomatic artistic practice. For about fifteen years, my plastic research has focused on the liberation of the line of the plane. This work has evolved to integrate a new dimension: connected walking. This has become increasingly central to my artistic approach. Thanks to Using my smartphone, my body is transformed into a paintbrush, drawing impalpable lines on the surface of the earth. The smartphone also acts as a digital palette, generating and compiling a variety of data. The result is a work in constant evolution, mutant and polymorphic. It oscillates between physical installations and performances, palpable matter and digital data, forming a map that is both rhizomatic and poetic.

In my research, the main problem is structured around a question: what can the line do? In other words, what are the plastic potentialities of an open and abstract trace? I experiment with it in its relationship to the plane, gesture and movement. I question the expressive promises of a line between thread and trace. And since there is only one step from the trace to the market, I naturally slipped into a line of flight. With this corollary: how can we "workshop" while walking? In this perspective, I "augmented" myself of a smartphone: tool among other things for captures, tracking and archiving... And I walk.