The exhibition “My Silk Road” honors the Algerian heritage

Salima Ayadi is an artist graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, specializing in painting on silk. Many times commissioned by Algerian institutions such as the Senate, the National People’s Assembly or for large local companies such as Air Algerie, Salima Ayadi now unveils her art to the general public.

Nineteen paintings and no less than thirty scarves are on display at the Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts in Algiers, until February 13. Quite naturally, the exhibition “My Silk Road” illustrates the rich cultural and historical heritage of Algeria, from its architecture to traditional ceramic and earthenware designs, through Arabic calligraphy. As a true aesthete, his works take the form of landscapes and monuments of all regions of the country, highlighting its great diversity, from Algiers to Kabylia in the north of the country.

 

 

A noble art, a capricious technique

Painting on silk is a noble art that requires a great technicality. It requires indeed a great reflection and a plan of attack prior to the creation, because no return is possible once the ink impregnated on the fabric. The error is fatal, especially since Salima has a taste for bright colors, which sign her paintings where each detail is meticulously drawn.

 

 

 

New illustrations of Algeria

The artist has presented herself on many occasions at collective or individual exhibitions, and even beyond the national borders, as far as Libya and Morocco. Her next project: the edition of an art book that gathers all her works, always with in its heart: “the richness and the variety of the cultural heritage of all the regions of Algeria”.