Join us for the opening of Performing Colonial Toxicity, an archival exhibition documenting France's secret nuclear program in Algeria during and after the Algerian Revolution (1954-62). This vast research project, set up by architectural historian and exhibitor Samia Henni, unfolds through a series of audiovisual assemblages, each composed of maps, photographs, films, still images, archival documents and testimonies.

Samia Henni is an architectural historian, exhibitor and educator. Working through textual and visual strategies, her practice interrogates the histories of the constructed, destroyed and imagined environment – those produced by the processes and mechanisms of colonization, forced displacement, nuclear weapons, resource extraction and war.

Image: Photograph by Bruno Barrillot of the French nuclear sites of Reggane and In Ekker in the Algerian Sahara, taken during a trip with filmmaker Larbi Benchiha and his team in November 2007. Courtesy of the Armaments Observatory, Lyon, France.