Ma mer est fragile (My sea is fragile) 2020/ Video. 58 min  

This film tells the story of the clandestine journey to Europe of Bast, my neighbour from a building in Annaba, Algeria. A journey that went wrong and which tells the story of his failure. Between his testimony, my autobiographical account, archives and my position as an artist through the performances that accompany his story, a portrait emerges of the social violence experienced by young Algerians, their dreams of a better life and the utopia of success in Europe.

Mounir Gouri was born in Annaba, Algeria, in 1985. He is one of a young generation of visual artists concerned not only with his own status as an artist, but also with the social, cultural and political difficulties that young people of his age encounter on a daily basis. Being born in 1985 means having spent an entire childhood and adolescence in the painful climate of the civil war. But Gouri Mounir's work is far removed from this tragedy, and is instead rooted in current events and the socio-political and economic realities that are shaking Algerian society to its core. Interested in new media, he uses performance, video, photography, drawing and sculpture. Gouri Mounir has had several group and solo exhibitions. He was awarded the special prize of the friends of the Institut du Monde Arabe in 2019 and the Aide à la création de la DRAC île-de-France in 2021. He has recently shown his work at Galerie Arcades Bains-douches in Marseille (2023), in the Exodes exhibition in the town of Saint-Raphael (2022), Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2021), Galerie Olivier Meyer in Nantes (2021), Maison des Arts in Malakoff (2021), Galerie Ygrec (2021), 109 in Nice as part of the parallels du Sud-Manifesta 13(2020), among others.