“My work attempts to mimic the expansive landscape of my youth. This is evident in the manner in which my practice continually spills forth from drawing into three-dimensionality. Through sculpture I attempt to manipulate the messages inherent to scale and material, having worked in povera substances such as found wood and plastic, often solidifying it in permanence through the use of bronze.
The body as a vessel for power, glory and inevitable humiliation is a key concept within my work – a thought which binds my reflections on masculinity and heraldic histories.
I sculpt with wax, clay and rotten wood which I then cast into resin or bronze and recreate to mimic the original putting my viewer under false pretense and allowing them to question.”

Farouk Batiche is a press photographer who covers Algeria, North African countries, and the Middle East.
He accumulated nearly 20 years of experience in photojournalism.
Batiche started his professional life at the Newpress photo agency in Algiers in the early 1990s. This period allowed him to work regularly as a war journalist.
At the dawn of the Arab Spring in the early 2011, Batiche was working as a freelance writer at the British news agency Reuters, where he was noted with exclusive photos of events in Algeria. This brief job at Reuters was a gateway for him which opened the doors of Agence France Press (AFP), which he joined in February 2011. Batiche worked as AFP’s permanent correspondent for Algeria until August 2016.
He has carried out many missions in foreign countries, including Egypt, Burkina Faso, Tunisia and several African countries.
During his career, Batiche has had to work in extreme conditions during major events.