Born in 1960 in Tunis in Tunisia. Meriem Bouderbala graduated in painting and engraving from the School of Fine Arts in Aix-en-Provence in 1985, before joining the engraving department of the Chelsea Art School, in engraving specialty. After having settled permanently in Europe, the artist returned to Tunisia in 2001. In her work, she highlights the feminine condition in the Arab world by questioning the social norms that govern her existence and the fantasies projected on the oriental woman. At the same time scenographer, director, painter and photographer, her work, largely imbued with her double culture is a permanent questioning of Orientalism, of its modalities as of its effects. Curator of several exhibitions, she assured that of the Printemps des Arts in Tunis in 2012.