A native of Tangier, Houda Terjuman translates his history into the richness of her Moroccan, Syrian, Turkish, Italian and Irish heritage. She draws her strength from her multiculturalism, her great creativity, and she expresses herself through love, trials and all of her life experiences.
Houda Terjuman observes the world around her and transcribes it with great tenderness through bits of land, roots, objects left behind, books, trees or ruins. Despite the sensitivity of the subject, the resulting pain, the work of Houda Terjuman remains positive and generous, it immortalizes a moment of happiness captured by the artist, a moment of peace, a good memory, green earth, a joy interior.
The sculpture is the founding function of space which becomes a place of life and negotiation of the process of identity in the confrontation with otherness. The artist could only choose the medium of three-dimensional sculpture to decline an evolution, that of uprooting, the search for home, resilience and finally rest. A process that involves individuals, communities and the world. The tree and biological systems are a metaphor for the cultural condition which, eradicated, becomes multi-rooted through the transformation of its own practices, resisting and reacting to external pressures to become, on the surface, and expanding root. in several directions, rather than pretending to be anchored in the depths of the earth.