Meryam Benbachir

Meryam Benbachir: Triangle-Astérides/Glasgow Sculpture Studios resident 2026

From September to November 2026 Glasgow Sculpture Studios hosted artist Meryam Benbachir, recipient of the 2026 Triangle-Astérides/Glasgow Sculpture Studios residency.

Meryam Benbachir (1999) is an artist, writer, and performer based between Marseille and Paris. Working at the intersection of writing, performance, installation, and critical research, she develops long-term investigations into regimes of visibility, minoritized narratives, and strategies of opacity as forms of resistance. She graduated with a DNSEP from MO.CO. ESBA in 2024.

Her practice examines how diasporic, queer, and racialized bodies are rendered legible, conditioned, or instrumentalized within cultural spaces. Through silence, erasure, withdrawal, and fragmentation, she constructs forms that unsettle expectations of representation and displace established regimes of identification. Moving between Arabic, French, Kabyle, English, and silence, her work approaches language as a wounded, shifting, and organic material.

Her installations explore transparency, disappearance, and thresholds of perception, while her performances mobilize the voice as a sensitive archive and a space of survival. Alongside this, she develops research into symbolic currencies, identity capitalization, and affective economies within the contemporary artfield.

Her work has been presented at Institut des Cultures d’Islam, La Villette, Carreau du Temple, Couvent de la Belle de Mai, and Thundercage, among others. She is also involved in curatorial, editorial, and collective projects, notably with Collectif Jeunes Critiques d’Art, the journal Trash Press, and the podcast Pourvu Qu’iels soient Douxces. Since 2026, she has been an artist-in-residence at Artagon Marseille.