Ismaïl Bahri was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He lives and works between Pairs and Tunis, where he studied art. His work incorporates many cultural and aesthetic references, developing visual experiments that are both sensitive and exacting. The results of these experiments take the varying forms of drawings, videos, photographs, installations, and hybrids of these forms. His work has been presented at Les églises de Chelles, the Collège des Bernardins (Paris), the Cinémathèque of Tangiers, the Staatliche Kunsthalle (Karlsruhe), Kunst Im Tunnel (Düsseldorf), La Centrale électrique (Brussels), the British Film Institute (London), Fondazione Mertz (Turin), and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), among others. Ismaïl Bahri has participated in international exhibitions such as the Biennale de Sharjah, Rencontres de Bamako, and Fotographia Europea. In France, his works were recently included in the exhibitions Mandrake a disparu at Espace Khiasma and L’arbre de vie at Collège des Bernardins. He has participated in video festivals such as Busan International Video art (South Korea), Cinemed Festival International Méditerranéen (France), Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb (France), and Videoformes (Clermont-Ferrand).