Pas tout œil voit

For Bachir Amal, in art, it is not the artist's intent that matters most, but the final result. By wrapping the glasses without altering their shape, Amal transforms them from a tool for seeing into an invitation to truly “see” differently.
Pas tout œil voit (Not every eye sees) invites us to pause and rethink perception. As the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty said, seeing means holding something at a distance. Amal reminds us that the truth lies in the eye of the beholder and invite us to rethink what we take for granted.

Bachir Amal is a painter and graphic designer that works and lives in Casablanca, Morocco. Alongside his own artistic practice, he is a Visual Arts Professor and Trainer at C.P. R Derb Ghallef in Casablanca and founding member of the Village of Artists' Studios Association.

Bachir Amal's primary technique and creative language is collage, which he combines with various mixed media, including silkscreen, photography, and engraving. He has managed to transcend the seemingly playful nature of collage by transforming it into a fully developed visual language. Over time, his forms have become more refined and lighter, giving his work a sense of elegance and clarity. Graphs, signs and traces are carefully articulated here and there, as if to give voice to the ineffable. The palette itself is reduced to the essentials. His unique artistic language has earned him wide recognition; his work being exhibited worldwide and featured in national and international collections.