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Belgian artist (1975–2020)

Naziha Mestaoui (1975 – April 29, 2020)^[1] was a Belgian artist trained in architecture, who lived and worked in Paris. She worked both collectively (LAb(au), Electronic Shadow) and individually, and received awards in several countries.

As an environmental artist and activist, she was best known for One Heart, One Tree at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP21) in December 2015. The participatory art installation supports reforestation on several continents.^[2]

Her work attempted to bridge "the virtual and reality, technology and nature, as well as what is visible and invisible."^[3]

Early life and education

Mestaoui was born in 1975 in Brussels, Belgium,^[4] to a Tunisian father and a Belgian mother.^[5][6] Mestaoui trained as an architect.

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She did undergraduate work from 1993–96 at La Cambre in Brussels. From 1996-97 she studied at Graz University of Technology ( Co-creating ecological art with the amazon's huni kuin tribe ... RARO