Amina Saoudi Aït Khay’s practice is distinguished from traditional Amazigh techniques by the use of improvisation as a working method in the weaving process, an approach which is very different from the methods of the Amazigh weavers. Saoudi Aït Khay manages to impose herself through an erratic and singular discourse, creating a coded language narrating her life through weaving as her ancestors did before her.

Beginning her practice at a very early age after being introduced to weaving by her mother, Amina Saoudi Aït Khay developed techniques of improvisation and experimentation through graphic expression by painting on silk. Saoudi Aït Khay’s work stems from a deeply personal and intuitive process, influenced by traditions inherited through generations. Her tapestry works often begin with traditional dyeing processes, using natural materials she sources from her surroundings. Using the loom as her blank canvas, Saoudi Aït Khay creates intricate patterns through gestures of hand-weaving; these rhythmic patterns tell a story of Amazigh cultural history and depict memories of Moroccan and Tunisian landscapes. The artist experiments with natural dyeing, which she partially integrates into the weft in order to introduce dyed light into the body of her weaving.