Artists in residence

Here’s a polished British English translation that preserves the refined tone and conceptual depth of the original French text:

Mehdi Hachid (born in 1988, Algeria, lives and works in Algiers) is a multidisciplinary artist and artistic director whose work probes the limits of perception, transdisciplinary dynamics, and the dialogues between materiality and abstraction.
Through immersive installations, sculptural practices and audiovisual projects, he constructs a visual language in which science, philosophy and formal experimentation converge. His approach, grounded in the systemic exploration of emotions and invisible structures, unfolds along two main lines: a maximalist practice combining kinetic installations, graphic compositions and fragmented narratives that question the sensory overload of contemporary societies; and a minimalist research practice that reduces artistic gesture to essential signs, where emptiness and metaphorical resonance become bearers of meaning.

Claiming an archaeology of process, Mehdi Hachid integrates the traces of his works’ genesis, transforming technical experimentation into poetic narrative. Regularly collaborating with researchers and specialists in both the humanities and the sciences, he blurs the boundaries between art, technology and empirical knowledge.
In recent years, he has gained significant recognition on the national scene, notably with Nexus, an immersive audiovisual installation presented at the Institut Français in Constantine (2023) and subsequently at the Institut Français in Algiers (2024), exploring the resonances of systemic thought.

In 2024, he created Waiting For Noah, a monumental sculptural installation commissioned for the Izmir International Design Biennial (Turkey). The work denounces the ecopolitical fractures of the Mediterranean, addressing both human migratory flows and the vulnerability of marine ecosystems. At the same time, he serves as artistic director of 1/100 Un Centième, a flagship project of the Franco-Algerian Design Biennial, through which he champions a vision of design centred on narratives of material resilience and relational scale.

That same year, the Algiers International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) invited him to unveil a piece from Corps Territoire, an original project positioned at the crossroads of critical anthropology and decolonial studies. Drawing from archives, collective artefacts, and oral histories gathered from Algerian communities, this work explores buried bodily memories and the tensions between hegemonic narratives and marginalised histories.
A major stage of this research will be exhibited in November 2024 at Galerie Hamid Khellafi (Paris) in the form of an interactive installation combining sensory cartographies and digitised artefacts.

As head of The DOJO—an agency and creative studio based in Algiers—Mehdi Hachid orchestrates cultural projects at the intersection of contemporary art, social design and civic mediation. This hybrid laboratory, both an incubator of ideas and a production platform, embodies his vision of an artistic practice rooted in territorial realities while engaging in dialogue with global urgencies.
His works feature in major institutional and diplomatic collections, including the Palais de la Culture (Algiers), the K2 Foundation (Izmir), and the embassies of Germany, France, Palestine and the Netherlands in Algiers. Balancing radical poetics with social engagement, his practice stands as an act of resistance to imposed norms—whether ecological, social, or cultural.