Biography

Mohamed Amine Hamouda joined the El Omrane Arts Pilot High School in Tunis to pursue his education, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with a specialization in painting, followed by a master’s degree in aesthetics and techniques of arts from the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts in Gabès (Tunisia), where he currently teaches.

The work of Mohamed Amine Hamouda explores and studies the botanical, maritime, and natural resources of Gabès to create platforms that document and interpret the threatening situation of biodiversity and the region’s ecosystem due to industrial intervention, aiming to provoke new possibilities and responses to social, environmental, and economic questions.

The exploration of the biodiversity of the southern coast, the examination of Gabès’ flora allowed Mohamed Amine Hamouda to create natural pigments, dyes, and paint colors illustrating his process of revelation, research, and development of artistic practice that studies and documents the nature and cultural heritage of the region. Using painting, collages, and installations and presenting the landscape unity in a new format, the experimenter continually explores the unique oasis ecosystem to create new mediums.