Bouchra Benhalima
(aka DALYA.B.)

“Collage Expo”
April 19 - May 19

My name is Bouchra Benhalima but my artist name is DALYA.B. which is the nickname I used when I was a teenager. After spending my entire life in Paris, I moved to NYC in August 2022.

Faced with collages since childhood, from a real cultural mix, we can guess a bubbling brain, receptive to all the daily scenes that unfold in our world.

I use the instruments of surrealism, minimalism, color contrast, photography, and digital manipulation to tell surprising visual stories with a twist. In my collages, i speak about deepest psychological matters, bringing things that are usually considered unpretty to light, making them shine with different colors and aesthetically appealing. I describe my creations as building a bridge between the visible and the invisible.”

— DALYA.B.