The ArtReview Podcast episode 7 features artist and photographer Zineb Sedira in conversation with digital editor Alexander Leissle. Sedira discusses Algerian cinema, the Scopitone, and her new Tate Britain Commission titled "When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks," a site-specific installation in the Duveen Galleries open until January 2027. The episode explores three works chosen by Sedira, including Agnès Varda's "Salut les Cubains" (1963) and William Klein's "The Pan-African Festival of Algiers" (1969), as lenses into her practice and themes of displacement, identity, and cinema as a tool of resistance.
This episode matters because it highlights Sedira's growing prominence in the contemporary art world, following her representation of France at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Her Tate Britain Commission, which recreates a 1970s Algerian café in Paris and examines art and cinema as revolutionary tools, underscores ongoing dialogues around postcolonial identity, diaspora, and the political power of visual culture. The podcast format also offers an intimate, curated entry point into an artist's thinking, bridging personal archives with broader historical and cultural narratives.