Fatma Tilikète is a Kabyle painter and poet, born in Grande Kabylie (Algeria) in 1931. She moved to Roubaix with her family in 1953. His works are inspired by his life, childhood, exiles and countries. His luminous poetry is illustrated by his shimmering painting. In his collection Tiboukharines. Or the figs of my fig tree,” Fatma Tilikète writes, “A garden that opens up to parallel lives... mountains... plowed land... dusty, clay tracks… A joyful spring between the stones… a jar of water… the cock’s song… a strong smell of manure… A stone house… two majestic, generous fig trees… fields of wheat and poppies… a donkey attached to a tree… green bushes… A child-adult aware of her story interspersed with unforeseen events, flowered with poetic tenderness of jasmine and sharing… A letter… a phone that rings... suitcases... a coin... tears... ».
In 2010, the B.A.R. gave a new lease of life to the former Claude Draperies store by installing the Q.S.P.* contemporary art gallery, managed by the B.A.R.