Amine El Gotaibi

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Amine El Gotaibi

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Amine El Gotaibi Dimensions

Mountain Installation: iron and wool, 300 x 450 cm / 2021

Perspective de seduction

Perspective de seduction

Perspective de seduction

PERSPECTIVE DE SÉDUCTION (PERSPECTIVE OF SEDUCTION)

At the center of the device, it is the exhibition space itself that first appears inseparable from the work. This 19th century palace, which no one, until recently, dared to approach (attacking it is not even talking about it) was a hotbed of successive powers within its walls. It gives the work of El Gotaibi its value and splendor. The work targets the historic site while delicately enhancing its beauty. And Amine tries to impose his power on the space: he distributes his composite work between the roofs and the interior surface (the room and the patio) starting from the "Room of Memory." Inside it are suspended metal plaques representing two sheep carefully selected in its ideal types: the Phoenix sheep and the Seduction sheep. From their pores emerge woolen threads trying to escape from each of the windows. Where the rays of the Seduction sheep fail, the fleece of the Phoenix sheep takes flight, the threads meet at a vanishing point that runs towards the upper terrace like an escape. From this terrace, it is the sunlight that bursts, from mirrors to mirrors to the dark room of memory. Along the galleries: two traditional rugs, one representing the mountain, the second the desert, another form of wool symbolizing the river. In the patio: a third woolen sheep imprisoned in a cage. In the bedroom, a video that connects in three dimensions the seven postures of the sheep conceptualized by the artist.

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PERSPECTIVE DE SÉDUCTION (PERSPECTIVE OF SEDUCTION)

At the center of the device, it is the exhibition space itself that first appears inseparable from the work. This 19th century palace, which no one, until recently, dared to approach (attacking it is not even talking about it) was a hotbed of successive powers within its walls. It gives the work of El Gotaibi its value and splendor. The work targets the historic site while delicately enhancing its beauty. And Amine tries to impose his power on the space: he distributes his composite work between the roofs and the interior surface (the room and the patio) starting from the "Room of Memory." Inside it are suspended metal plaques representing two sheep carefully selected in its ideal types: the Phoenix sheep and the Seduction sheep. From their pores emerge woolen threads trying to escape from each of the windows. Where the rays of the Seduction sheep fail, the fleece of the Phoenix sheep takes flight, the threads meet at a vanishing point that runs towards the upper terrace like an escape. From this terrace, it is the sunlight that bursts, from mirrors to mirrors to the dark room of memory. Along the galleries: two traditional rugs, one representing the mountain, the second the desert, another form of wool symbolizing the river. In the patio: a third woolen sheep imprisoned in a cage. In the bedroom, a video that connects in three dimensions the seven postures of the sheep conceptualized by the artist.

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PERSPECTIVE DE SÉDUCTION (PERSPECTIVE OF SEDUCTION)

At the center of the device, it is the exhibition space itself that first appears inseparable from the work. This 19th century palace, which no one, until recently, dared to approach (attacking it is not even talking about it) was a hotbed of successive powers within its walls. It gives the work of El Gotaibi its value and splendor. The work targets the historic site while delicately enhancing its beauty. And Amine tries to impose his power on the space: he distributes his composite work between the roofs and the interior surface (the room and the patio) starting from the "Room of Memory." Inside it are suspended metal plaques representing two sheep carefully selected in its ideal types: the Phoenix sheep and the Seduction sheep. From their pores emerge woolen threads trying to escape from each of the windows. Where the rays of the Seduction sheep fail, the fleece of the Phoenix sheep takes flight, the threads meet at a vanishing point that runs towards the upper terrace like an escape. From this terrace, it is the sunlight that bursts, from mirrors to mirrors to the dark room of memory. Along the galleries: two traditional rugs, one representing the mountain, the second the desert, another form of wool symbolizing the river. In the patio: a third woolen sheep imprisoned in a cage. In the bedroom, a video that connects in three dimensions the seven postures of the sheep conceptualized by the artist.

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Desert Installation: iron and wool, 300 x 450 cm / 2021

WOOL, LIGHT, AND POWER

Light / dark, here is another dichotomy in this tangle of signs that respond to each other. From the dark room leave woolen threads in search of light, while through the play of mirrors (symbol of the epiphany) the beams of the sun are captured and reoriented to invade the memory room, chasing the darkness and revealing the Truth. Doesn't the secret room refer, in our imagination, to the place where the ancient man dies and where the new man comes into the world? In Dar Moulay Ali, Amine El Gotaibi therefore writes in wool the variations of seduction, in this space of contrasts, sometimes bright, sometimes dark. Wool becomes a transmitter between the history of the fields and the history of palaces, between the light from outside and the dark corners of power. The wool sings the weapons and the melodies of the mountain people, the wool carries with it the currents of freedom. The wool enchants our imagination suggesting another order, other tensions, other social hierarchies. The sheep themselves pose, dance, have a blast. The artist produces a disruption of the senses, and the public understands it as soon as they enter this field of experimentation. A site of sensitive emotions. To become a herd, advancing at the tempo of the others, to put the nose in a circular ceremony, turning in loop. The public will undoubtedly know how to find their way between the wools, and get lost too. Let's be a little wilder, the artist asks us, to better understand our animality and, thus, our familiarity with these fragile mammals, at the mercy of our lust.

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WOOL, LIGHT, AND POWER

Light / dark, here is another dichotomy in this tangle of signs that respond to each other. From the dark room leave woolen threads in search of light, while through the play of mirrors (symbol of the epiphany) the beams of the sun are captured and reoriented to invade the memory room, chasing the darkness and revealing the Truth. Doesn't the secret room refer, in our imagination, to the place where the ancient man dies and where the new man comes into the world? In Dar Moulay Ali, Amine El Gotaibi therefore writes in wool the variations of seduction, in this space of contrasts, sometimes bright, sometimes dark. Wool becomes a transmitter between the history of the fields and the history of palaces, between the light from outside and the dark corners of power. The wool sings the weapons and the melodies of the mountain people, the wool carries with it the currents of freedom. The wool enchants our imagination suggesting another order, other tensions, other social hierarchies. The sheep themselves pose, dance, have a blast. The artist produces a disruption of the senses, and the public understands it as soon as they enter this field of experimentation. A site of sensitive emotions. To become a herd, advancing at the tempo of the others, to put the nose in a circular ceremony, turning in loop. The public will undoubtedly know how to find their way between the wools, and get lost too. Let's be a little wilder, the artist asks us, to better understand our animality and, thus, our familiarity with these fragile mammals, at the mercy of our lust.

read more

WOOL, LIGHT, AND POWER

Light / dark, here is another dichotomy in this tangle of signs that respond to each other. From the dark room leave woolen threads in search of light, while through the play of mirrors (symbol of the epiphany) the beams of the sun are captured and reoriented to invade the memory room, chasing the darkness and revealing the Truth. Doesn't the secret room refer, in our imagination, to the place where the ancient man dies and where the new man comes into the world? In Dar Moulay Ali, Amine El Gotaibi therefore writes in wool the variations of seduction, in this space of contrasts, sometimes bright, sometimes dark. Wool becomes a transmitter between the history of the fields and the history of palaces, between the light from outside and the dark corners of power. The wool sings the weapons and the melodies of the mountain people, the wool carries with it the currents of freedom. The wool enchants our imagination suggesting another order, other tensions, other social hierarchies. The sheep themselves pose, dance, have a blast. The artist produces a disruption of the senses, and the public understands it as soon as they enter this field of experimentation. A site of sensitive emotions. To become a herd, advancing at the tempo of the others, to put the nose in a circular ceremony, turning in loop. The public will undoubtedly know how to find their way between the wools, and get lost too. Let's be a little wilder, the artist asks us, to better understand our animality and, thus, our familiarity with these fragile mammals, at the mercy of our lust.

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Construction detail of the Desert Installation: iron and wool, 300 x 450 cm / 2021

FROM IMAGE TO SCULPTURE

Around wool as the main medium, these are ten works that pose the question of the translation of an image from one system of representation to another which leads to an alteration of the border between the mediums. The founding act of this process is the three-dimensional projection of the network of vanishing lines that imprisoned the sheep in the drawings made for the first chapter of his project: Perspective de brebis. Drawn towards real space, these lines materialize in a bundle of woolen threads that take possession of the surrounding space, configuring a soft and abundant architecture that gives rise to a monumental flexible sculpture entitled Seduction. It unfolds across the patio, from the passageways to the upper floors of the riad, inviting the visitor to discover a new cartography of the place.

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FROM IMAGE TO SCULPTURE

Around wool as the main medium, these are ten works that pose the question of the translation of an image from one system of representation to another which leads to an alteration of the border between the mediums. The founding act of this process is the three-dimensional projection of the network of vanishing lines that imprisoned the sheep in the drawings made for the first chapter of his project: Perspective de brebis. Drawn towards real space, these lines materialize in a bundle of woolen threads that take possession of the surrounding space, configuring a soft and abundant architecture that gives rise to a monumental flexible sculpture entitled Seduction. It unfolds across the patio, from the passageways to the upper floors of the riad, inviting the visitor to discover a new cartography of the place.

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FROM IMAGE TO SCULPTURE

Around wool as the main medium, these are ten works that pose the question of the translation of an image from one system of representation to another which leads to an alteration of the border between the mediums. The founding act of this process is the three-dimensional projection of the network of vanishing lines that imprisoned the sheep in the drawings made for the first chapter of his project: Perspective de brebis. Drawn towards real space, these lines materialize in a bundle of woolen threads that take possession of the surrounding space, configuring a soft and abundant architecture that gives rise to a monumental flexible sculpture entitled Seduction. It unfolds across the patio, from the passageways to the upper floors of the riad, inviting the visitor to discover a new cartography of the place.

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Wool slope: iron and wool, 230x130x40 cm / 2023
Wool slope: iron and wool, 230x130x40 cm / 2023
Phoenix diptych, 2 x (74 x 110 cm), 2019

Phoenix diptych, 2 x (74 x 110 cm), 2019

Jabal : iron and wool, 304x202x50 cm / 2025
Jabal : iron and wool, 304x202x50 cm / 2025

Amine El Gotaibi

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Amine El Gotaibi

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Copyright © 2025 Amine El Gotaibi

Amine El Gotaibi