AMINA BENBOUCHTA supporting INSAF
Eruca, 2014
Archival print on dibond
75 x 100 cm (29 1/2 x 39 2/5 in.)
Edition: 2/5
€3,000
“Insaf has done pioneering work in the city of Casablanca sheltering and educating young girls that would have otherwise ended up as young maids or prostitutes.
Sent to work in the city at a very young age by their families, these girls can be compared to helpless slaves enduring hours of work and violence.
Insaf has been working for years to rescue them.” - Amina Benbouchta
Photo by Alex Bego
ARTIST
Casablanca-based Amina Benbouchta engages gender politics and the feminist slogan “the personal is political” in paintings and photographs in which she uses herself as a subject.
Positioning her body in charged, confining spaces, and often wearing costumes, Benbouchta explores themes of alienation, restriction, and identity. Differentiating herself from American conceptual photographers, who have also made themselves subjects, Benbouchta focuses on issues surrounding the oppressed position of women in the contemporary Arab world.
CHARITY
INSAF fights against the social exclusion of single mothers and protects abandoned children, striving for a society that guarantees rights for every woman and child in a dignified environment. Since extra-marital sex is illegal in Morocco, many babies get abandoned or left to die at birth.
The Casablanca-based NGO supports the mothers with legal, medical and psychological assistance, as well as shelter, and helps find jobs for pregnant women. It also seeks to ensure girls attend school rather than work as child domestic workers.