‘You

have

to

look

into

the

past

to

move

forward’

–

an

interview

with

Zineb

Sedira

Thousands of people have visited Franco-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira’s ‘living room’, which formed one part of her theatrical installation inside the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022. She was the first artist of Algerian descent to represent France and within hours of the exhibition opening, she was pegged as a favourite for the top award. In the end her friend and south London neighbour, Sonia Boyce, who also appears in Sedira’s film 'Dreams Have No Titles', the central piece in the pavilion, took home the Golden Lion. For Sedira, however, the project was never about winning, it was about ‘friendship, solidarity and the artistic community’.

Sedira speaks to Apollo Magazine's Millie Walton.