She became famous at only 16 years old and she then became a major figure in the arts in Algeria. The painter Baya is the subject of a retrospective at the Institut du monde arabe, in Paris: Baya, women in their garden », until March 26, 2023. The exhibition is based on exceptional loans: some works are visible for the first time and shed light on the career of this extraordinary artist, born in 1931 and who died in 1998.