Dr Rachida Boubaker-Triki graduated from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1971. Then she worked on a thesis about Aesthetics and politics at the renaissance directed by Pr. Hélène Vedrine. In 1983 she obtained her PhD from University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 2001 she obtained a Habilitation in philosophy from Paris 8 University under the direction of Pr. Patrice Vermeren. Currently she is full Professor of Philosophy at Tunis University. She is also founder and president of the Tunisian Association of Aesthetics and Poetics, vice President of the International Association of Poetics, member of the Executive Board of the Euro-Mediterranean association for Art History and Aesthetics, and delegate in the Executive Board of International Association for Aesthetics. She is also an Art critic and a Curator specialized in North African Art. In 1994 she has co-produced a series of 24 documentaries about the Tunisian painters in their workplace. She also has been the curator of numerous international art exhibitions in Europe and Africa. She has also been advising visual art foundations and nominating Artists for various international Awards. Currently she is acting as advisor for a Kamel Lazaar Foundation and nominator for Prix Pictet 2013 and for Prince Claus Awards 2013. She has organized numerous international meetings on the contemporaneous problems of the creation in Arts, and has published books and articles on the subject. She is also a member of editorial boards of “Recherches poïétiques” and “Art’in”. During the Tunisian revolution 2011, Rachida Triki, as a president of the Tunisian Association of Aesthetics and Poetics initiated an appeal for the democratisation of culture, for the support of free and independent art criticism, and for the encouragement of young artists and cultural NGOs.
Books by Rachida Trik (selection)
L'image : Ce que l'on voit, ce que l'on crée , Larousse, Paris, 2008.
L'esthétique du temps pictural , Tunis, 2001.
Paintings in Hasdrubal, Tunis 2002 .
Les femmes peintres en Tunisie CREDIF Tunis 2001.
L'esthétique et la question du sens , Arcantères, Paris, 2000
Esthétique et politique à la Renaissance , Publications de l'Université de Tunis, Tunis 1986.
Books edited by Rachida Trik (selection)
Poïètique artistique et citoyenneté , Wassiti Edition, Tunis, 2012
Le contemporain des arts , Wassiti Edition, Tunis, 2011
Orient Occident, Les arts dans le prisme exogène , Wassiti Edition, Tunis, 2008.
Poïétique de l’existence, Stratégie des arts contemporains , Beit elHekma, Tunis, 2008.
Philosopher en Tunisie aujourd'hui Revue Rue Descartes n°61, Paris 2008.
Quelle pensée dans la pratique des arts ? , ATEP, Tunis, 2007.
Poïètique de l'existence, Stratégies contemporaines des arts , SONUMED Edition, Tunis, 2006
Espaces et mémoires , Maghreb Edition, Tunis, 2005.
Creation, hasard et necessité, Tunis, 2003.
Arts and transcréation , Wassiti, Tunis, 2001.
Critique et création , CPU, Tunis, 2000.
Création et culture , Arcantères Paris, 1994.
Patrimoine et création , Edilis, Lyon, 1992.
Filmography
In 1994 Rachida Triki has co-produced a series of 24 documentaries for the national Tunisian TV. Each documentary explores a Tunisian painter's work. It contains interviews of the painter, scenes of the creation process, and critics of art works.
Exhibitions
2013: Curator for the Land Art event "", Sidi Bou Saïd / Takrouna / Chénini, Tunisia, Mars 2013.
2011: Curator for the exhibition "Photographies contemporaines en Tunisie", National Centre of Living Art, Tunisia, octobre 2011.
2010: Curator for North Africa for , The 9th Biennale of Contemporary African Art. Dakar, Senegal.
