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Tunisian Visual artist born at Stockholm in 1990. Studied at the Arts High School of Rhine at Mulhouse - France. Residing and working in France. Ouissem Moalla develops concepts of visual language that he experiments with through artistic expression. His productions materialize in several aspects and are organized in series, each constituting a global representation of the different subjects he deals with. He elaborates systems of visual representation by organizing sets of associations coordinated by a theory and laws. They are experimental languages ​​of plastic expression that affect a wide range of the visual field, using bodies, materials, movements…in space. His research feeds on philosophical developments around the image and contemporary cultural references. Resident in France, he has pursued a self-taught path since 2012, after studying in art school and learning from practicing artists. His interest in representation systems pushes him to partially explore several areas that required the development of such tools. These range from pictorial philosophical concepts to diagrams of scientific representations, passing through literary and poetic construction. The synthesis of his inspirations pushes him to dress his systems with various plastic approaches to give them consistency. However, geometry is by far the most favored, allowing the use of simple, universally definable visual elements and thus giving the possibility of detecting relationships, which lay bare the system of representation behind the work. This half-open door offered to the viewer is intended to be playful and allows the gradual understanding of all the works based on the same language. Through other experiences, he tries to weave speculative correspondences between the abstract elements of his systems and cultural references. It is an inverted process during which he intuitively breaks down the codes of a cultural object, to understand its raison d'être in its context and determine its different characteristics. The plastic results of this approach are representations, whose compositions pushed towards abstraction, deploy in large part familiar objects. This approach is recurrent in his work of an "in situ" nature and in his research in artistic residence. This back and forth between the abstract and the concrete draws its influence from the theories and techniques of the "Ars memoriae".