Artist Amina Agueznay will represent Morocco at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026 with a monumental installation titled 'Asǝṭṭa' in the Arsenale. The work focuses on collaborative practices and ancestral narratives, drawing from her fieldwork with weavers and metalsmiths, and incorporates traditional silver sequins to create a dialogue between the Middle Atlas Mountains and Venice's canals.
The pavilion engages directly with the Biennale's theme 'In Minor Keys,' exploring intimacy and collective creation through craft. Agueznay views the national pavilion as a 'threshold' space for dialogue at a time of global tension, emphasizing the Biennale's role as a rare international meeting point for confronting global narratives through situated artistic perspectives.