Born in Algeria in 1979, Hamza Bounoua studied at the Fine Art Institute of Algeria. Hamza’s work encloses references to ethnicity and identity. Colors and calligraphy signs interlace giving birth to ancient shapes, primary forms... a new form of letters that is related to Hurufiya School of art. This movement fuses the traditional and the contemporary, the letter and the sign, in a way that the letter is perceived as an artistic form and does not require to be read or decrypted.