AMYEL GARNAOUI
About Amyel
Amyel Garnaoui is an Italian-Tunisian artist.
She lived in Congo (DRC), United States and France. She currently lives in Rome and has three children.
She grew up in a cosmopolitan and traveling family and was exposed to different cultures from an early age.
Eclectic personality, Amyel Garnaoui is also an art historian and midwife.
Her education, both formal and informal, has given rise to the different themes of her current work: decolonization of the mind and of the arts, overcoming of patriarchy from a gift economy perspective, anachronism as a fertile key of reading human artistic production, non violent birth, examining desire and pleasure, spiritual dimension as a key to access art, humour as a general framework.
Her main activity is ceramics, but she also uses other media such as sculpture, photography, painting, installations.
Studies
Degree and Specialization in History of Art and Archeology, Rome, Paris, Siena
After the birth of her first two children she dedicated herself to the dissemination of art for children (Venus and the Dragon, Gallucci; Leonardo’s Last Supper, Biancoenero ed.)
Becoming a mother and the perception that giving birth today is a controversial issue pushed her to delve deeper into the topic of birth, graduating in Obstetrics and then becoming an activist in this field. She made two documentaries about birth paradigms and obstetric violence:
Work
