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 vernacular 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 fibers become vectors for a reflection on memory, place, and transformation. Through these living materials, Agueznay questions inherited gestures, reconfigures them, and transposes them into forms that engage with space. Her modular works, often conceived as evolving ensembles, reflect a desire for continuity and metamorphosis. Each installation, each object, embodies a delicate balance between reverence for technical heritage (or ancestral knowledge) 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 honored but also questioned and expanded. Transmission becomes a creative act – an exchange that transcends the workshop or cooperative to open up broader reflections on the role of tradition in our contemporary societies. Her modular installations – textile, sculptural, or ornamental – explore temporality and flexibility. They 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.
She conceives art as a space of experimentation where tradition and innovation coexist. Her work celebrates both the excellence of craftsmanship and the power of common purpose, affirming the importance of a continuous dialogue between past and present, between the hand that shapes and the mind that imagines. 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. In this space of co-creation, joy and beauty are not mere embellishments – they are gravitational forces; political acts that hold our worlds in balance. Amina 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.
