A fan of mythological universes and coded languages, Aïcha Snoussi handles anatomical drawing in the manner of danced writing, with the ritual gestures of a magician or fortune teller. Her drawings, a skilful blend of deformed bodies and handwritten inscriptions, are like anachronistic relics waiting to be deciphered in the future–often immersed in an underwater, science-fictional atmosphere, with an emphasis on multimedia installation.

Like an archaeologist, the artist collects the remains of a vanished civilisation with queer connotations. Expanding Drexciya's mythology about the existence of an underwater people born of slaves thrown overboard, she invites us into a fiction from the depths of the Mediterranean. But it also invites us into a futuristic, techno-scientific universe where the man-machine relationship inherited from the history of the avant-garde is re-enacted. This cyborg archaeology hijacks the tradition of handwritten parchments, evoking forms of vernacular or esoteric knowledge that run counter to mainstream thinking. Knowledge is transmitted in fragments, without the possibility of becoming one with a designated or idealised people, abandoned to oblivion and erasure. Pushing ever further the hybridisation of signs and the interplay of memory, Aïcha Snoussi often transcends the framework of drawing on paper and parchment to draw directly in a space or on its walls, in site-specific installations such as the one designed for MACAAL.