Ines Arif

Tunisienne, b. 1999

Biography

Ines Arif (b. 1999, Tunis) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice centres on pop surrealism and symbolic narrative. Working across painting, drawing and mixed media, she creates meticulously rendered scenes in which the familiar becomes uncanny and everyday objects acquire psychological and socio-cultural resonance.

Her work explores identity, gendered expectations and emotional tension through isolated figures, hybrid beings and staged domestic spaces imbued with a sense of nostalgia. Motifs such as animals, children and fragmented bodies function as metaphors, revealing subtle forms of vulnerability, pressure and inner conflict. Her graphite drawings further investigate themes of confinement, memory and the relationship between the body and its environment.

Ines has exhibited in several contemporary art spaces in Tunisia, including Archivart, Saladin, TGM Gallery and La Boîte d’Art Contemporain. She is also the founder of Kreatives Studio, a painting workshop dedicated to accessible, community-centred art education.

Nationality: Tunisienne
Born: 1999
Instagram: @ines_arif