Baba-Ali

Baba Ali is an Algerian-American artist based in the United States whose practice spans video, performance, installation, and text, engaging questions of identity, cultural belonging, institutional critique, and humor. His work often addresses the position of Muslim and Arab subjects within Western cultural and political frameworks, using wit and absurdism to expose the assumptions and contradictions of contemporary multicultural societies.

His video works typically deploy everyday situations and deadpan delivery to unsettle comfortable liberal assumptions about difference, tolerance, and representation.