BIO

Soufïa Bensaïd is an interdisciplinary Tuniso-Canadian artist. She was lucky enough to cross multiple cultures and social, professional environments between Tunisia, France and Canada, where she lived 20 years. Her art is at the intersection of performance art, writing, drawing, movement, poetry, video, relational esthetic, installation, site specific action. Her path invited her to question the perception gaps within different cultures and the foundation of existence. Her migrant, nomad situation made her question: How to relate with, to unify all the different reference systems? Being in relation/in relationship-to, present-with is at the foundation of her work. Her movement practice then her hearing loss invited her to perceive how present, authentic, relationships open a field of consciousness that facilitates transmission at a basic, attuned, unifying dimension.
Since 2009, she has presented exhibitions, performances, workshops, actions in the public and virtual space, publications, artist residencies in North America, Europe, India and Tunisia. She created in 2022 “It’s The Moment”, an artist residency in nature on the north coast of Tunisia, an art life laboratory dedicated to all disciplines, for doing, or not, and being.