Amina Benbouchta is a multidisciplinary artist, she goes from charcoal to photography, from canvas to colored glass, to reveal images of an uninterrupted initiatory journey, populated by everyday objects with a strong symbolic charge. She plays with our perceptions of power and desire. Among them are recurring elements that inhabit her pictorial lexicon with multiple levels of meaning: the crinoline is both a tool of seduction and an enslavement of the female body, the Babel tower of political violence.
The rabbit is present in her Arab cultural heritage through the tales of Kalila Wa Dimna and embodies the animal spirit in African mythology as a messenger of the invisible. She assumes a double cultural belonging and probes the social constructions of each: in the Western world, everything must be seen, in the Oriental culture things are veiled, they must be protected from the evil eye. Benbouchta offers a reflection on domination and human perception. She takes her personal socio-political context and transposes it to a universal level.
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Shadows Reflecting on the Window in my Room, 2025View more details
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Coronelle Lisse (Smooth Snake), 2025View more details
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Alice Up and Down, 2025View more details
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Always a Mirror, 2025View more details
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Big Alice, 2025View more details
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Cut Leg, 2025View more details
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Medusa’s Wrath, 2025View more details
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Mirrors One and Two, 2025View more details
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Mother Nature, 2025View more details
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Origine (Origin), 2025View more details
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Thorns, 2025View more details
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Un grand cerf dans les bois (A Big Stag), 2025View more details
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Unfold It, 2025View more details
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Untitled, 2025View more details
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Year of the Medusa, 2025View more details
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Boy in a Mirror, 2025View more details
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Free Cloud, 2025View more details
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Hare Story, 2025View more details
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Les Poissons (The Fish), 2025View more details
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Rorschach Stain, 2025View more details