Amine El Gotaibi

Amine El Gotaibi

Amine El Gotaibi

Sabora, wool and corten steel, (3,5 x 3 x 16m) / 2024 - Exibition view, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar - Photo: Joseph Ouechen
Addawhiyat , Installation, rammed earth, 13 x 3 x 2,5 m / 2024
Park of Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

Sabora

Sabora

SABORA (BALCK BOARD)

Saboura employs wool to engage with the symbolism of the blackboard, an iconic representation of education and transmission. During a residency in Doha, the artist visited Liwan, formerly a school for girls, where preserved blackboards bore silent witness to the history of women's learning. In Sabora, wool originates from the blackboard and flows through the space, a material embodiment of thought in motion. The wool traces how ideas emerge from the foundation of learning, transforming into concepts, philosophies, and stories that move through time and space. Soft yet enduring, the material speaks to both the fragility and resilience of knowledge, and to the threads that connect past teaching to future possibility

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SABORA (BALCK BOARD)

Saboura employs wool to engage with the symbolism of the blackboard, an iconic representation of education and transmission. During a residency in Doha, the artist visited Liwan, formerly a school for girls, where preserved blackboards bore silent witness to the history of women's learning. In Sabora, wool originates from the blackboard and flows through the space, a material embodiment of thought in motion. The wool traces how ideas emerge from the foundation of learning, transforming into concepts, philosophies, and stories that move through time and space. Soft yet enduring, the material speaks to both the fragility and resilience of knowledge, and to the threads that connect past teaching to future possibility

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SABORA (BALCK BOARD)

Saboura employs wool to engage with the symbolism of the blackboard, an iconic representation of education and transmission. During a residency in Doha, the artist visited Liwan, formerly a school for girls, where preserved blackboards bore silent witness to the history of women's learning. In Sabora, wool originates from the blackboard and flows through the space, a material embodiment of thought in motion. The wool traces how ideas emerge from the foundation of learning, transforming into concepts, philosophies, and stories that move through time and space. Soft yet enduring, the material speaks to both the fragility and resilience of knowledge, and to the threads that connect past teaching to future possibility

read more

Sabora, wool and corten steel, (3,5 x 3 x 16m) / 2024
Exibition view, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Sabora, wool and corten steel, (3,5 x 3 x 16m) / 2024
Exibition view, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

MATERIAL & MEMORY

Wool carries within it a history of warmth, protection, and craft, a material long woven into the fabric of daily life across cultures. In Saboura, the artist harnesses this humble fiber to trace the invisible pathways of knowledge as it moves from teacher to student, from generation to generation. The blackboard, traditionally a surface where ideas appear and disappear in cycles of chalk and erasure, becomes instead a point of origin, a source from which thought flows outward in tangible, textile form. The wool's journey through space mirrors the transmission of learning itself: organic, meandering, sometimes tangled, yet always continuous. What emerges is not a fixed lesson but a living conversation between past instruction and present interpretation, between the structure of pedagogy and the freedom of individual understanding. The work honors the women educators of Liwan, whose teaching created currents of knowledge that continue to ripple through time, shaping minds and futures in ways both seen and unseen.

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MATERIAL & MEMORY

Wool carries within it a history of warmth, protection, and craft, a material long woven into the fabric of daily life across cultures. In Saboura, the artist harnesses this humble fiber to trace the invisible pathways of knowledge as it moves from teacher to student, from generation to generation. The blackboard, traditionally a surface where ideas appear and disappear in cycles of chalk and erasure, becomes instead a point of origin, a source from which thought flows outward in tangible, textile form. The wool's journey through space mirrors the transmission of learning itself: organic, meandering, sometimes tangled, yet always continuous. What emerges is not a fixed lesson but a living conversation between past instruction and present interpretation, between the structure of pedagogy and the freedom of individual understanding. The work honors the women educators of Liwan, whose teaching created currents of knowledge that continue to ripple through time, shaping minds and futures in ways both seen and unseen.

read more

MATERIAL & MEMORY

Wool carries within it a history of warmth, protection, and craft, a material long woven into the fabric of daily life across cultures. In Saboura, the artist harnesses this humble fiber to trace the invisible pathways of knowledge as it moves from teacher to student, from generation to generation. The blackboard, traditionally a surface where ideas appear and disappear in cycles of chalk and erasure, becomes instead a point of origin, a source from which thought flows outward in tangible, textile form. The wool's journey through space mirrors the transmission of learning itself: organic, meandering, sometimes tangled, yet always continuous. What emerges is not a fixed lesson but a living conversation between past instruction and present interpretation, between the structure of pedagogy and the freedom of individual understanding. The work honors the women educators of Liwan, whose teaching created currents of knowledge that continue to ripple through time, shaping minds and futures in ways both seen and unseen.

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Sabora detail, 2024 - Photo: Joseph Ouechen

KNOWLDEG IS POWER

The blackboard stands as a threshold, a dark surface against which light takes form, where abstract thought crystallizes into language and symbol. In Saboura, this threshold becomes permeable. The blackboard is central to all education, carrying with it the collective nostalgia of the classroom, a space where minds awaken and futures take shape. Through this work, the artist offers a simple yet profound gesture: an invitation for all people to celebrate and engage with the power and emancipation that come with knowledge. The installation becomes a meditation on access and equity, the belief that knowledge, when freely given and openly received, holds the promise of peace and abundance. Amy El Gotaibi

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KNOWLDEG IS POWER

The blackboard stands as a threshold, a dark surface against which light takes form, where abstract thought crystallizes into language and symbol. In Saboura, this threshold becomes permeable. The blackboard is central to all education, carrying with it the collective nostalgia of the classroom, a space where minds awaken and futures take shape. Through this work, the artist offers a simple yet profound gesture: an invitation for all people to celebrate and engage with the power and emancipation that come with knowledge. The installation becomes a meditation on access and equity, the belief that knowledge, when freely given and openly received, holds the promise of peace and abundance. Amy El Gotaibi

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KNOWLDEG IS POWER

The blackboard stands as a threshold, a dark surface against which light takes form, where abstract thought crystallizes into language and symbol. In Saboura, this threshold becomes permeable. The blackboard is central to all education, carrying with it the collective nostalgia of the classroom, a space where minds awaken and futures take shape. Through this work, the artist offers a simple yet profound gesture: an invitation for all people to celebrate and engage with the power and emancipation that come with knowledge. The installation becomes a meditation on access and equity, the belief that knowledge, when freely given and openly received, holds the promise of peace and abundance. Amy El Gotaibi

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Sabora in process, 2024
Sabora in process, 2024 - Photo: Laid Liazid

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Copyright © 2025 Amine El Gotaibi

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