Jewellery Design:
We are going to get in touch with the matter.
Essentially the matter has to be experienced hand-to-hand. Understanding the touch, the torsion and the use of the body has a strong impact to the creation itself. Diving completely into the matter we will be able to form a base for our work.
Through the process of research we will free the potential of the matter and with the aid of our hands we will master the matter so to create capable structures. By transforming new substances will be generated until we find what we believe is a solid object, strong, freestanding and stable.
Amina Agueznay (MA)
Amina Agueznay is from Morocco. After studying architecture in Washington then Parsons School of Design in New York, Amina worked as an architect for seven years in the United States before returning to Morocco to dedicate herself entirely to jewellery design.
She started by taking her inspiration from Berber tradition, working on antique jewellery, deviating their elements from their initial function, re-assembling them with coral and semi-precious stones. The art of Amina Agueznay does not reject tradition, while leaving free rein to the imagination and fantasy. She finds her raw materials in the souks of Marrakech. In her small exercise books, she sketches her drawings which will become unique pieces. Crystal, white quartz, turquoise, Murano glass, cornaline, chalcedony, labradorite, amethyst... are stored in boxes. For designer Nourredine Amir, she created pieces made from small pieces of wood gathered in the Benslimane forest. But whatever materials are used, her works all have a point in common: they are meticulously structured. This is surely the heritage of her years spent as an architect. (text from www.maison-objet.com)
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