Art talk: Amin Zouiten

Amin Zouiten (born 1994) is a Swedish-Moroccan artist and filmmaker, educated at the Malmö Art Academy and Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. In his cinematic and site-sensitive works, he looks at how places can be sensorially charged through stories and myths that are reproduced over time and connected in associative geographies. His work examines meanings, thought patterns and processes, opening up penetrating interpretations at the skewed intersection between past and present.

Amin Zouiten´s art project Grand Tour consists of two film works: the short film Vom Nil shot on mobile phones along the Nile in Egypt, and Schibah, Nils, Katrine - a silent black and white film of a solitary camel living on Öland. Both works draw from two historical points and examines depiction in relation to travel narratives. Art Initiative is screening Vom Nil on lill-skärmen (in the north corridor on the groundfloor) and Schibah, Nils, Katrine on the big screen

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Amin Zouiten (born 1994) is a Swedish-Moroccan artist and filmmaker, educated at the Malmö Art Academy and Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. In his cinematic and site-sensitive works, he looks at how places can be sensorially charged through stories and myths that are reproduced over time and connected in associative geographies. His work examines meanings, thought patterns and processes, opening up penetrating interpretations at the skewed intersection between past and present. In 2024, he was a Bernadotte scholarship recipient at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

Kameel by Jan Asselijn (1610–1652) – a Dutch painter contemporary of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl – portraying a solitary camel. Ehrenstrahl (1628–1698) painted Camel with Driver from 1688 (below), which depicts the animal (Schiba) and its attendant (who was taken to Sweden along with the camel, and later forced to change his name to Nils). Both paintings served as inspiration for Zouiten in his work with Grand Tour.