Zerrouki Salim
- country
- null-fr
- disciplines
- comic strip, visual art, Bande dessiné, art plastique
- languages
- arabe, français
- born on 14.02.1978
- in Alger, Algérie
- lives in Saint Fargeau Ponthierry
contact information
biography
Born in Algiers in 1978, Salim Zerrouki studied at the École des Beaux-Arts d’Alger before settling in Tunisia. After a career as an art director in advertising, he founded the caricature blog Yahia Boulahia in 2011, featuring daily publications following the Tunisian revolution. He created the eponymous character, a dejected-looking figure with a long beard symbolizing Salafism, who issues absurd fatwas. The caricaturist uses his talent to mock religious excesses. At the Printemps des Arts de Tunis in 2012, he presented the controversial work Superman Barbu.
He launched another artistic venture, the blog Ta7richa, which depicts daily life and its objects, leading to an exhibition at the Maison de l’Image in April 2016. He participates in LAB 619, an experimental Tunisian comics collective that self-publishes independent magazines. The artist primarily works on themes of migration and borders, identity and racism, exploring how art can address them and humor can deconstruct them. He published two comics: 100% Bled in 2018 and Comment réussir sa migration clandestine in 2021. He took refuge in France in 2023 and became a member of the Agency of Artists in Exile.
