Arken Eddine Rezgui

Biography

Born in 1998 in Kef, Tunisia, Arken Eddine Rezgui first studied mathematics, obtaining a Baccalaureate in Mathematics, before turning towards visual arts. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts, specializing in Printmaking, from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Nabeul, and a Master's degree in Arts Sciences and Techniques, specializing in the Theory of Creation.

Artistic Approach

My work explores the mutations of the contemporary image through a dialogue between the body, matter, and the digital realm. Starting from self-portraiture and fragments of everyday life, I create images in which reality is deconstructed, transformed, and reborn into new forms.

Ordinary textures — a piece of fabric, a marked surface, a trace of time — become transitional spaces between memory and presence, between what remains and what continuously transforms.

What Remains

I never begin with an image. I begin with a fragment — a body, a surface, a trace left by time. From there, the image slowly abandons what it once was. It breaks apart, absorbs matter, and remembers differently.

Photography, printmaking, and pixel are not separate disciplines to me. They are different ways of asking the same question: what remains when memory changes its form?

What I carry from Kef, from a body shaped between mathematics and images, is inseparable from my work. I collect ordinary traces — worn fabrics, damaged surfaces, forgotten gestures — not to preserve them, but to let them become something else. Every image is a negotiation between what disappears and what insists on remaining.

In a world where images are produced, consumed, and forgotten at an ever-increasing speed, my work seeks another rhythm. I am not interested in producing more images, but in creating images that resist disappearance — images that ask to be looked at before they are understood.

I do not seek certainty or fixed meanings. If an image leaves behind a silence, a hesitation, or a question that cannot be answered immediately, then it has already begun to exist.