Moroccan artist born in Casablanca, Amina Benbouchta first studied anthropology and Middle Eastern studies at McGill University in Montreal. This humanistic training, attentive to what lies beneath the surface, continues to nourish her artistic approach. She later moved to Paris, where she studied drawing, printmaking, and lithography, developing a visual language grounded in intuition, restraint, and the observation of subtle signs in everyday life.
Benbouchta is among the key figures who contributed to the rise of the contemporary Moroccan art scene. As a co-founder of the collective 212 in the 1990s, she helped open new spaces for expression, experimentation, and reflection for artists. Her practice, deeply cross-disciplinary, moves between installation, photography, painting, and found objects, often structured around a poetics of fragile presence.
Her work is marked by a particular attention to liminal spaces: thresholds, fragments, abandoned objects, erased silhouettes, traces of gestures. She explores intimacy, the feminine, and the invisible, questioning what persists when the world withdraws. White, shadow, emptiness, and suggestion become places where a silent memory settles, often in tension with reality.
Amina Benbouchta exhibits regularly in Morocco, Europe, and the Middle East. Her work, both minimal and emotionally charged, offers a subtle reading of the world. Each piece appears as a whisper, a suspended confession, a presence on the verge of disappearing, yet one that, in its very restraint, asserts a singular poetic power.