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Born 1967 in Brussels, Belgium
Charif Benhelima has been developing a groundbreaking research in photography and has lately been receiving a great deal attention. Benhelima investigates the notion of identity, memory/oblivion, document, and truth through images that explore perception, time and space, and a sense of invisibility. Besides having worked with analogical photography, he has been experimenting for almost ten years with the Polaroid 600.
Embarking on a kind of countercurrent to the digital medium he developed a highly personal style, whose images have a timeless quality. Bringing the viewer back and forth to past and present or suggesting a sense of suspension and void, Benhelima’s photographs create destabilization, enhance the feeling of transition, and obscure the notion of truth. Benhelima’s diverse aesthetic, formal and conceptual research compose nevertheless a coherent and singular oeuvre.
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 Charif Benhelima, Occupant, 2007, 59 x 60 inches, Ilfochrome – Diasec, edition of 5 |
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 Charif Benhelima, Diggings, 2005, Ilfochrome-diasec, 15,75 x 16,54 inches, edition of 5 |
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 Charif Benhelima, Minus Two, 2006, Ilfochrome-Diasec, 47 x 48 inches, edition of 5 |
