Amine Habki

Overview

Hairy Crown, 2023

Amine Habki (b. 2000, Nantes) is a French-Moroccan artist and recent graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy. Belonging to a new generation of artists reformulating contemporary representations of masculinity, Habki investigates the interplay between absence and presence. By allowing the archetype of the classically masculine, dominant figure to recede, he opens space for a more vulnerable and emotional physicality.

Through a practice that traverses painting, sculpture and textile-based media, he reimagines archetypes of masculinity through the use of soft, tactile materials such as fabric, wool and thread. His vibrant compositions, often incorporating embroidery and found objects, become vessels for narratives of identity, desire and belonging, deeply rooted in his Franco-Moroccan heritage.

Drawing inspiration from Oriental motifs, Italian Romanticism, primitivism and contemporary expression, Habki constructs a visual language rich in symbolism and metaphor—one in which tenderness resists male conventions of virility and performance, and emotionality reclaims space within the male body. Through this synthesis of cultural references and material sensibility, vulnerability becomes resistance and presence emerges from absence.

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