Morocco (Kingdom of)

Amina Agueznay weaves histories, gestures, and human relations into forms that activate memory and space. For over two decades, her practice has unfolded in close dialogue with Moroccan vernacular knowledge, rooted in sustained collaborations with artisans and local communities. Conceived as processes of transmission and transformation, her works allow materials to speak while sustaining an intimate relationship with their sites of origin.

Asǝṭṭa, the Amazigh term for ritual weaving, names a sacred act that combines technical know-how, prayer, and memory. More than a craft, it is a feminine rite of creation in which the woven form is understood as a living being, accompanied by rituals marking its cycles of becoming. Sited in the Sale dell’Artiglieria at the heart of Arsenale, Asǝṭṭa unfolds as a living membrane, a second skin that spreads across space, peeling away to reveal layers of time.

This suspended architecture opens a reflection on the notion of threshold: a space neither inside nor outside, but inhabited, traversed, and activated. Resonating with the Moroccan concept of âatba, the installation approaches the threshold as a zone of passage between worlds: private and public, visible and invisible, where memory, ritual, and gesture converge.