Inès Di Folco Jemni explores the themes of exile, maternity and feminine spirituality in a poetic and visual way, notably through the evocation of mystical figures and ancestral rites. For Liste 2025, Di Folco Jemni focuses on three figures: Rabia al Adawiyya, Circe and Mary Magdalene. Drawing on the notion of landscape and ‘home’, the artist wants to represent these feminin icons in their geographical and geological territory: Bassorah for Rabia, Mount Circeo for Circe, or the Sainte-Victoire grotto for Mary Magdalene. These spaces, facing the sea, echo Paul Gilroy’s book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, and invites reflection on the heritage of black cultures and the invocation of water goddesses.

Inès Di Folco Jemni (b. 1993) is a Franco-Tunisian painter based in Paris. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018. Recent exhibitions have been held at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), Magasins Généraux (Pantin, FR), Art Basel (Miami, US), Paris Internationale (Paris, FR).