AVBH is an artist and curator.
Her multidisciplinary practice questions the power relations—both intimate and political—inherited from Western modernity. Through artistic and curatorial research (poetry, photography, film), she explores the long temporalities and regimes of invisibility inherited from the forensic turn. Her practice focuses on the fabrication of evidence, fragile images, and suppressed testimonies.
Her work takes the form of films, performances, installations, and texts, extended by research on atmospheres and olfactory devices that bring us closer to the intimate. She combines poetry and investigation, fragility and tension, to produce liminal spaces—where appearance resists.
She envisions these sensitive spaces as places where forms of disturbance and control are replayed, but also as possibilities for recomposition, even political nods or discreet sabotage.
Her recent projects invest in atmospheres as spaces for creation and political recomposition. A graduate of EHESS and UAL (London), she developed her curatorial practice at La Colonie (Paris), combining art, cinema, and research around issues of decolonization and sharing the word, which she continues to pursue as a freelancer.
EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
2025 Αμάν, short film screened in Eresos, Greece, September 2025
Group exhibition, Useful Fictions 5 | Atmospheres, Atmospheres, Wallonie-Bruxelles Center, September 2025
Useful Fictions Summer School, Atmospheres, Atmospheres, Polytechnique Paris
Residency and open studios at the 15 Beautreillis gallery, August 2025
2024 Residency at la maison de la poésie d’Amay
PERFORMANCES
2025 Performance A Place For Us, with Isadora Alves, Wallonie-Bruxelles Center, September 2025
Performance and I Could Not Endure the Perfection of Silence with Gaël Segalen, Galerie 15 Beautreillis, August 2025
2024 Performance Mater at Le Boeuf Montre, Paris
Poetry Les Appétits, at Maison de la Poésie, Amay (Belgium)
CURATING /TALKS
2025 Small currents, series of meetings at galerie 15 beautreillis, Paris, May-June
Soil Assembly, round table for Flaneur magazine, Jardin des Traverses, Paris, May
2024 Controlling the atmosphere: smell as an policy for action with Sandra Barré – POUSH manifesto Aubervilliers France
2023 Earth, Earth, Earth, cinema cycle, Nablus Palestine, July 2023
Filmer le Périph’ Filmer la zone, film meeting co-curated with Samba Doucouré (Cinémathèque idéale des Banlieues du Monde), cinéma L’écran, St Denis, May 4, 2023
L’image et la boucle, meeting at La Petite Egypte bookshop. April 2023
2022 Berlin Biennale | Curatorial assistant for public programs
2021/23 FLANEUR Magazine | Co-editor of the magazine and author
2021 TIGRITUDES / Les films du Djabajah | writing assistance for the acquisition of a mobility grant in Burkina Faso. Programme ACP-UE CultureLa Colonie nomade | Producer workshops for BAK (basis voor actuele kunst)
2018/20 La Colonie, Paris – Curator and coordinator of the programs & exhibitions
2018 Film curator for the Beirut Noise Project – Paris
2015/16 President of the association Radio O (now La Perle), for contemporary poetry
2013/14 Project assistant – Association Orafrica & galerie Appartement, Paris
2011 Cinema assistant director and producer – Petite Maison Production, Paris
PUBLICATIONS
2025 White atmospheres: a proposal to erode control- Collective Atmospheres ASLE Conference – July 2025
Controlling the atmosphere: smell as a policy for action, book in progress with Sandra Barré
2023 35.04, in collaboration with Alassan Diawara. Poem & Photographs. Flaneur Magazine
2020 “Routes and contemporary trajectories. Une interview avec Myln Juste‘ (Secrétaire générale du STRASS)’ in PROSTITUTION COLONIALE ET POSTCOLONIALE , éditions La Colonie
2016 Attalah, Nadine & Hugonnier, Alix “Modernités? Pour une approche contextuelle de la modernité artistique‘, in, Gillet, Fanny, Messaoudi, Alain, Naef, Silvia & Yavuez, Perin Eml (dir.), Dossier ’Curatorial Practices. Ecole d’Automne 2016.” [Online], ARVIMM.
Participant to the Autumn School ‘Curatorial Practices and Constructions of Art Histories of Muslim Worlds’, Centre Pompidou, IISSM-EHESS, University of Geneva Communication : Colloquium ‘Migrations and Creations’, Abbaye de Royaumont.
EDUCATION
2024/25 PhD Forum : Pre-doctoral training in Art & Design – La Head, Swizerland
2020/22 MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography – London College of Communication – Congratulations from the Jury
2014/15 MA Social ethnology & anthropology, Congratulations from the Jury. Thesis under the supervision of Brigitte Derlon (LAS) – ‘ The challenges of storytelling in a global art world: the reconstruction of the contemporary and modern art scene in Lebanon after 1991 ’
2012/14 MA Sociology, Sciences Po Paris. Thesis under the supervision of Agnès van Zanten. Subject: ‘Constructions of identity in the school environment: the case of history teaching’
2011 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada – Erasmus
2009/11 Sciences Po Paris, Undergraduate
TEACHING
2025 Tutor at university Paris 8
COMMITMENTS
Magnolia Art Residency (Lesbos), member of the Créations en Urgence association: production and communication
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