Anysia Nefissi (b. 1991, Paris) lives and works in Paris.

Starting from painting as her primary medium, her practice has expanded to encompass sculpture, installation, performative works, and experimental writing — developed through a Master's in research-creation at Université Paris VIII, completed in 2026 with jury congratulations.

She works with symbolic materials and collected objects — water, salt, sugar, plaster, fabrics, photographs — to develop counter-archives and neo-rituals that reactivate erased gestures and interrupted forms of women's knowledge, across her four heritages: Vendéen, Breton, Kabyle, and Tunisian. Often activated by the public, her works engage the body and the senses as pathways to memory.

Drawing on Amazigh mythological figures such as Anzar and Teryel, she explores the relationships between bodies, territories, and temporalities, through two concepts she has developed that structure her entire approach: transformission and unarchiving (désarchivage).

She is a member of the Non-Étoile collective in Saint-Ouen.

Her work has been shown in À perte de lieu (Fauvettes City Club, Saint-Denis, 2026), Mémoires de l'invisible, a viva-exhibition (Communale, Saint-Ouen, 2026), Between Loss & Discovery (Hypha Studios, London, 2024), and Books (Arebyte Gallery, London). She is presenting Table de divinations, a lecture-performance, as part of Act! Anywhere (Made Anywhere) at Fondation Fiminco in September 2026, and will present Diaspora Gift Shop in October 2026 at Communale, Saint-Ouen, as part of the Saison Méditerranée.

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