Amine Habki

Overview
Hairy Crown, 2023
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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Exhibitions
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  • I Wish You Roses
    Amine Habki
    I Wish You Roses, 2025
  • Ghosted
    Amine Habki
    Ghosted, 2025
  • Still Dirty
    Amine Habki
    Still Dirty, 2025
  • Unboxing of Missed Summer
    Amine Habki
    Unboxing of Missed Summer, 2025
  • I Matched My Bouquet to Your Lips
    Amine Habki
    I Matched My Bouquet to Your Lips, 2025
  • I Matched My Bouquet to Your Gaze II
    Amine Habki
    I Matched My Bouquet to Your Gaze II, 2025
  • I Matched My Bouquet to Your Absence
    Amine Habki
    I Matched My Bouquet to Your Absence, 2025
  • Please Mind the Gap
    Amine Habki
    Please Mind the Gap, 2025
  • Buzz Cuts
    Amine Habki
    Buzz Cuts, 2025
  • Cupid Roulette
    Amine Habki
    Cupid Roulette, 2025
  • Ethereal Cycle
    Amine Habki
    Ethereal Cycle, 2025
  • Hennaya
    Amine Habki
    Hennaya, 2025
  • There Are No Stars to Save You
    Amine Habki
    There Are No Stars to Save You, 2025
  • Even Cupid Can Be Late
    Amine Habki
    Even Cupid Can Be Late, 2025
  • He Burned My Field/ Feels
    Amine Habki
    He Burned My Field/ Feels, 2025
  • Too Fast, We Can't See the Past
    Amine Habki
    Too Fast, We Can't See the Past, 2024-25
  • Strongly Loose
    Amine Habki
    Strongly Loose, 2023
  • Sans fil diptyque
    Amine Habki
    Sans fil diptyque, 2023
  • Hairy Crown
    Amine Habki
    Hairy Crown, 2023
  • 1vs1
    Amine Habki
    1vs1, 2023
  • Body Guard II
    Amine Habki
    Body Guard II, 2023
  • Endless Course
    Amine Habki
    Endless Course, 2022
  • Ostophage
    Amine Habki
    Ostophage, 2022
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