Béchir Boussandel Tunisian, b. 1984

  • Biography
    Béchir Boussandel

     

    Born in 1984, Béchir Boussandel lives and works between Paris and Tunis. A graduate of the Art College of Dunkerque, he began his practice in installation before turning decisively to painting, where his engagement with surface, scale, and perspective has become central. His works are constructed through finely layered applications of paint, often recalling the precision and intimacy of miniature painting, while expanding into aerial, bird’s-eye viewpoints that collapse distinctions between the terrestrial and the astral.

     

    Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, Boussandel reconfigures landscape as a shifting field in which bodies, architectures, and terrains appear suspended within unstable spatial systems. His compositions flow out through accretive painterly gestures that disrupt linear perspective, producing images that suggest both cartographic mapping and metaphysical enquiry. Within his work, displacement is a recurring condition, articulated through fractured viewpoints and unsettled horizons.

     

    Boussandel's work is held in major public collections, including the Ministry of Culture and Youth, Abu Dhabi; the Deji Art Museum, Shanghai; and the Al Maaden African Contemporary Art Museum (MACAAL), Morocco. He has participated in significant group exhibitions such as Hot Spots at Sotheby’s UAE (2025), Windows of the Soul at Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong (2023), and L’ombre d’un doute at Lalalande Gallery, Paris (2022). Recent solo exhibitions include Tenté par d’autres Soleils (A Two-part Solo), B7L9 Art Centre, Tunis (Kamel Lazaar Foundation) and Tabari Artspace, Dubai (2025),
    Extraction at the Montresso Art Foundation, Marrakech (2024), and The Sun Sets in the East at Taymour Grahne Gallery, London (2022).

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