Artist Residency, Inès Bouallou

Inès Bouallou is undertaking a residency at The Grange, Norfolk.

June 2026

Inès Bouallou left: Les monologues insensés 2024 right: Les rêves d'automne 2025

The Foundation for Art & Psychoanalysis, in collaboration with Grange Projects is pleased to be supporting an artistic residency by photographer and poet Inès Bouallou, at The Grange, Norfolk, UK. The Artist has been selected by us, in collaboration with the British Council in Morocco.

During her residency at Grange Projects, Inès will continue work on her ongoing project Hide-and-Seek.

This project is the culmination of several years of work and introspection; it is not an end in itself but a process of continuity: discovering oneself, exploring one’s true self, engaging in self-dialogue, unmasking oneself, and finally, expressing oneself without pretense.

Who am I when no one is watching me? Who am I when I look at myself? 

Which mirror truly reflects me? Which gazes judge me deeply? Which hand soothes me languidly? Which image deceives me completely? Which conversation terrifies me? 

Hide-and-Seek revolves around a game of “I” played by two people/characters who are—ultimately—the same being, yet whose duality takes shape and occupies space. From the tender to the cynical, and from the tenderly cynical to the cynically tender, from the saboteur, who destroys and discourages, to the lover-friend who encourages and comforts, and to the sage who gives meaning and charts paths beyond the frame to visualize.

Between the interior, which is “home,” and the exterior, which is “public space” or simply: the absence of one’s comfort zone,  how can one attempt to explore one’s being, one’s body, one’s movements, one’s habits, in different states of mind but also in different places? How can we find solace by creating works that reflect our feelings and evoke a certain delicacy of the soul? How can we capture and immortalize a sensation in an image without its heaviness? How can we raise awareness and share our weariness and heartache? 

This project also aims to raise awareness about the state of mental health in our generation, our feelings, our frustrations, our fears, our inner turmoil, our weariness, our bitterness, and our suffering, through metaphorical visual pieces in which we can see ourselves and identify.

About The Artist

Inès Bouallou is a photographer and poet. Her work focuses on gender and the body as a non-gendered object of research and study. Bouallou’s photographic approach, where the self-portrait is a major iconographic theme, allows her to distance herself from contemporary pictorial standards while reinventing old pictorial aesthetics whose value is based on the duality of self and other. Sometimes described as a painter-photographer, Inès Bouallou questions gendered identities through a self-portrait where her self multiplies to better deconstruct and desexualize the norms imposed by society. Constructed then deconstructed, manipulated then mounted from scratch, all that remains of their self-portraits are her manufacturing processes and a narrative framework that incorporates a notion of duration specific to the evolution of the body.