Aymen Mbarki

Born 1983. Tunis, Tunisia

Lives and works in Tunis, Tunisia

Aymen Mbarki is a self-taught visual artist whose heightened awareness and sensibility to the poetics and politics of language and mythologies infuse his practice. His graphically minimal compositions and painterly outlines straddle across figurative, theatrical and asemic abstractions and capture the essence of spontaneous and intimate human gesture. Mbarki’s work proposes a dialogue between material and movement, pattern and experimentation. Through his practice, the compositions unfold an exploration of brushwork semblances and graphic lines that vacillate between tradition and modernity, amorphousness and lineation, where the viewer is ensconced in tranquil spaces for freedom and introspection.

Mbarki's work depicts scenes and creatures that hover between fantasy and reality; the black line is a unifying element of his work. His minimal approach and distinctive technique take impetus from poetry, literature, Greek mythology and theatrical tragedy.

Mbarki’s work can be found in private and public collections of art, including La Boîte Centre d'art contemporain in Tunisia.

AYMEN MBARKI

"A Certain Distance"

29 MAY - 29 AUGUST 2025

Aymen Mbarki | 'A certain distance' La Boite, Tunis, Tunisia 29 May - 29 August 2025 'But you, who are so learned in the magical...