Amina Benbouchta Moroccan/French, b. 1963

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.