Sarah El Hamed 

Sarah El Hamed is a Franco-Algerian performance artist, director and mixed media storyteller in whose works memory and participation play an important role. This is transported through various forms of media such as live performance and public intervention.

Sarah El Hamed is a Franco-Algerian performance artist, director and mixed media storyteller in whose works memory and participation play an important role. This is transported through various forms of media such as live performance and public intervention. The multimedial installation, consisting of a video work accompanied by a 6x3 meter Algerian flag, is a tribute to the Moudjahidate and to the Algerian people. The public intervention “Au Nom du Peuple” (2019) took place in the streets of Algiers on 5th July 2019 during the Marches. The artist invites people around her to join the ‘collective sewing’ of an Algerian flag, an object which embodies the anticolonial spirit of Algerian people, while engaging in a conversation with them about the past and future of their country. The intervention represents women*’s role in mobilising people for the resistance, while questioning the (in)visibility of Algerian women* and reclaiming their space in society.