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Anissa Touati b. 1981 is an exhibition maker, an explorer curator. As a trained archaeologist born between Western and Middle Eastern cultures, she thinks of the Land as a country and the countries as regions. Seeking to make connections between these territories, she invests herself culturally by traveling without stopping, visiting the studios and by individually committing to each artist’s story. Touati envisions her exhibitions as an intimate performance. Each of them are tied to an own experience, usually reflecting a geographical and an identity exploration. These evoke nomadism, archaic memories, beyond social, sexual or cultural determinisms, involving the fictionalization of oneself.

Touati is Chalet Society’s co-director based between Mexico and France and has curated independently several exhibitions around the world, among her recent exhibitions are: ¿Cómo te voy a olvidar? at Galerie Perrotin (Paris), Coordenadas a solo show of Jesper Just at Anahuacalli Museum (Mexico), The Queen Falls at OMR Gallery (Mexico), Romance Atomico a solo show of Matias Duville at Barro gallery (Buenos Aires) and Canal Cosmovision at MSU Broad museum (USA). She recently curated the mexican part of the exhibition Cycles of collapsing progress at the Rashid Karami fair by Niemeyer & citadel of Tripoli (Lebanon) in collaboration with BEMA Museum and Studiocurart under the patronage of Unesco Beirut.