'Odalisque: my body in private spaces' is an autobiographical research of 'the space between two'.

A real or fictitious space, built or memorized, halfway between Africa and Europe, between Morocco and Switzerland, at the intersection of two cultures. A space in which Soraya Leila grew up.

Decorated with a symbolic identity made of drawings on the skin inspired from the art of henna, caligraphy and drawings of amazigh culture, she invests different spaces and layers: public, personal and intimate down to the skin. Like an incarnated moult, and through rhythmic trance she searches for the adequate representation and expression of her intercutural body. This woman's body that she questions, with its contours, its volumes, its solidity, its meaning and its image.

'Odalisque: my body in private spaces' challenges notions of perceptions, biases and complexity of the Arab female body and cross-cultural identity.