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Visual artist, curator, and artistic director originally from Tunisia, Mohamed Ben Soltane has been living and working in Montreal since 2022. Trained at the Fine Arts Institute of Tunis, he also taught art history and directed the BAC Art Center, renowned for its socially engaged and transdisciplinary programming. His artistic practice\u2014rooted in postcolonial studies, memory, and social critique\u2014oscillates between mosaic, photography, installation, and text-based art.<\/p>\n

For his new creation, Glitch in Arabic, Mohamed explores a phenomenon as subtle as it is revealing: the visual distortions that occur when Arabic text is misread by digital software. These \u201cglitches\u201d\u2014separated letters, reversed direction, corrupted typography\u2014become poetic and political fragments, reinterpreted as visual installations.<\/p>\n

Through this project, the artist questions the symbolic forms of domination that are invisible to the eye yet embedded in digital systems. 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