A work conceived as an installation, as part of the project created by Amina Agueznay for the Moroccan Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
This book is published on the occasion of the installation Asǝṭṭa presented by Amina Agueznay at the Pavilion of the Kingdom of Morocco at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, from May 9 to November 22, 2026.
A publication imagined as if it was an art installation. The Asǝṭṭa book is a tangible extension of the artist's installation unfolding within the Pavilion's space: an architecture of the threshold, a process of stepping through that structures both the artist's work and the pavilion's scenography.
The publication is constructed as a path, following stages that will engage the reader in the same initiatory rite that visitors will find at the Arsenale. It is part of the whole.
The work is as much a journey as it is documentation. It moves across temporal layers and registers: craftsmanship, popular culture, intimate narratives, and contemporary practice. It does not comment on the work, it prolongs it. With texts by Meriem Berrada, Myrna Ayad, Fatima Zahra Lakhrissa, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Alya Sebti, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asəṭṭa gathers distinct voices around the shared gesture of transmission, to allow the symbolic crossing set in motion by the installation to extend beyond the walls of the Arsenale.
Amina Agueznay (born 1963 in Casablanca, lives and works between Marrakech and Casablanca) is a multidisciplinary artist who combines structural elements, reinterpreted traditional media, and collective participation in works of varying scales, ranging from the infinitely small to the monumental.
