Mohamed Bourouissa was born in 1978 in Blida, Algeria, and currently lives and works in France. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in France and abroad, notably at Palais de Tokyo in 2024, at the LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, at the Musée d’Art moderne and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2018, he was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. In 2017, he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet photography prize. In 2020, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize following the exhibition ""Libre échange presented at Monoprix d'Arles as part of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie. In 2024, he was a finalist for the Merio Merz Prize. His works are held in prominent collections, including those of MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou and the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 2022, he won the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation Photobook Prize with Loose Joints editions for the book ""Périphérique"". ""Généalogie de la violence"" is his first formal fiction movie.