Always fascinated by manual labour, Myriam Aït Amar knew that this kind of profession would never give her any economic security. "I belong to that generation for which study was the only means to guarantee a future" she says. "I therefore always studied hard, becoming a teacher at school. But I was not satisfied with it. I was fascinated by the furnishings of friends' homes from an early age, I felt that something led me to that world of precarious manual art. So, I enrolled in art school." It was the turning point of her life. She studied in Cordoba, Spain, where she learned to listen to herself. And trust herself. From there her work was born: from the bottom of her heart. “Every piece I make is a piece of me.”
Myriam Aït Amar