Malika Agueznay is a pioneering artist in many ways. The first woman to develop abstraction, she took part in Moroccan modernity and contributed, alongside the tenors of the Casablanca School, to defining its codes and forms.
In 1966, after initial scientific training, Malika Agueznay enrolled at the Casablanca School of Fine Arts, then directed by Farid Belkahia. There, she rubbed shoulders with the thinkers of Moroccan modernity and contributed with them to inscribing art in the political and social fields that would define the movement. Together, they questioned contemporary painting and focused their work on the study of forms, lines, geometry and pure colour. In contact with them, the artist develops her own research which she will explore throughout her life through different media.