Ines Chiha – She got dressed, then took off her skin
Jul. 20 ⇾ Aug. 07 2026 (Monday – Friday)
© Elisabeth Bergeron
Biography
Inès Chiha is a self-taught French-Tunisian artist. She first discovered movement through martial arts before discovering street theater. After studying dramatic arts, she turned to movement, ultimately dedicating herself to dance. She developed her practice in the Big Bang programs, creating her first solo, Elle s’est habillée, puis elle a retiré sa peau.
This creation benefited from several residencies and artistic mentorship. In 2024, she began exploring breaking and co-founded the Molokhia Squad collective with Bashir Al Mahayni, with whom she created their first piece, Collapse.
Alongside this, Inès has a strong commitment to humanitarian work, nurtured by several years of social intervention with marginalized communities.
She is also a dance performer and cultivates an intimate, experimental sound practice blending sung and spoken voice with sound collages.
Project Details
Stories are like spells. We cast them on one another.
They used to say, “She was born with her eyes wide open!” as if she hadn’t become unsettling, as if she had always been that way.
Some stories are curses, rotting in the silence of families for generations. Other stories, that are not believed, give rise to what we call “madness”. People deemed mad are those whose stories are challenged by the majority.
In many ways, to some people, I am considered mad.