Jaoui is a French Tunisian artist who lives and works in Madrid, Spain. His works are exhibited all over the world and gaining enthusiastic reviews. Without any formal art education, his artistic practice is influenced by African primitive art, graffiti, glitch art, COBRA movement as well as the philosophy and attitude of post-war abstract expressionism. Creating captivating and labor-intensive work, Taher Jaoui's paintings are rich assemblages of layered forms, vibrant colors, expressive gestures, and mathematical signs and formulas. Jaoui uses the canvas as a personal way of expressing himself, he is doing so by a dynamic interaction, a physical back and forth dialogue in which perspective and orientation continuously change until all elements are balanced right. The artist likes to compare his technique to a dance routine with a familiar partner. 

Jaoui transports the viewer into the jungle of his soul and communicates it through an interactive experience while watching the work, which is open to interpretation by the viewer. Jaoui's artistic practice is still evolving and changing today, as he explores new worlds such as sculpture and technology, perfecting his pictorial language and inviting viewers to enter his rich emotional world.

During the years of his creation, Jaoui has formulated a unique personal language that consists of a variety of individual elements that are disassembled and reassembled in his various paintings. The result draws many of its elements from the artist's computer and engineering studies that come to life in the form of abstract mathematical signs and formulas, many of which are incorporated into his fascinating compositions that formulate his distinctly pure “Taharian” language.

During the 2020 lockdown, Jaoui's desire for human connections and interactions led him to a new form in his artistic language. In his latest series, he utilizes a new form of figurative paintings in his abstract language. This series will also appear in the exhibition.

Jaoui has had solo exhibitions in galleries in New York, Paris, Hong Kong and Tunisia among others and his artworks are in private collections all over the world. Welcome to the JUNGLE will be Jaoui’s first solo show in Israel.