Shourouk Rhaiem France/Tunisia, b. 1980

Shourouk Rhaiem is a French-Tunisian artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation. Her work incorporates family photographs, vintage objects, and consumer products, which she collects, reconfigures, and meticulously adorns with Swarovski crystals. Magazines, laundry detergent boxes, perfume bottles, soda bottles, and video cassette cases become vehicles for an economy of desire, blending fascination, projection, and memory. Through these arrangements, Rhaiem draws on a childhood imagination shaped by advertising images that contributed to a sense of everyday enchantment. Her work examines how popular visual culture shapes our personal narratives and representations.

Rhaiem gained international recognition with her exhibition Ordinary Life in 2018, presented by Swarovski in Vienna. Since then, her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including Milan Design Week (2023), the Bangkok Museum of Contemporary Art (2023), the Osaka World Expo (2025), the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (2025), and SAMoCA – Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art in Riyadh (2026). She will exhibit in May 2026 at Gare Saint-Sauveur in Lille as part of a show organized by lille3000, and at Villa Datris in the exhibition Mediterranean, Contemporary Odysseys. The 193 Gallery will dedicate a solo exhibition to her work at its Venice space in November 2026.