Amina Agueznay develops an artistic practice deeply rooted in artisanal knowledge and the human stories that shape it. Her work is grounded in a field-based approach that privileges immersion, exchange, and skill-sharing with craftspeople across Morocco. For nearly three decades, she has woven a dialogue between traditional techniques and contemporary forms, exploring the dynamics of transmission and transformation at the heart of traditional practices. At the core of her process lies a constant experimentation with materials: wool, henna, silver, stone, and plant fibres become vectors to reflect on memory, place, and transformation. Each installation, each object, embodies a delicate balance between reverence for technical heritage and its reinvention in a contemporary framework. Her interactions with craftspeople go beyond the act of producing artworks; they represent a collective inquiry in which know-how is not only honoured but also questioned and expanded. Her modular installations assemble, reconfigure, and reinvent themselves, like a landscape in perpetual transformation. Agueznay plays with scale and volume, shifting between monumentality and intimacy, structure and detail, creating immersive environments that physically and sensorially engage the viewer in the material and its narrative potential. Beyond form and material, Agueznay’s practice is a meditation on the human as a dynamic force, engaged in interaction and perpetual quest. Through encounters and exchanges, her works deconstruct asymmetries, inviting a world where transmission is not a static act, but a living negotiation between knowledge, experience, and sensibility. Agueznay invites us to imagine a future grounded in our shared humanity—one woven from tradition and becoming, matter and memory, the individual and the community.

WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION:

17 Talefdamt 1-3 (2024), ink on Hahnemuhle paper, 53 × 73 cm, 73 × 53 cm, 53 × 73 cm. Courtesy of the artist. In collaboration with Mehdia and Malika Agueznay