Fatima Agoula (b. 1998, NL) is an interdisciplinary artist, stylist and director who was born and raised in Zaandijk.

Fatima wishes to use her practice to reflect on the world as it is today, to continue raising critical questions while simultaneously bringing her passion to connecting with each other into the dynamic and fast changing world.

Her approach is based upon the intersectional exploration of her identity, in which her work centers around the interplay between womanhood, her African identity, her religious views from the Qur’an and the politics of fashion.

While studying Moving Image at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, specialising primarily in storytelling and with a keen interest in Audiovisual art, she simultaneously spent her time exploring the fashion industry in Amsterdam. She has assisted multiple fashion stylists and directors on set and helped set up multiple film- and fashion projects. She has also been following a lot of courses on fashion designing and pattern making, which she pursues in her free-time, besides drawing and painting.

For her audiovisual installation ‘Nothing but a test’, she unpacks the consequences of current clichés and accepted narratives on the Muslim woman and explores the meaning of life and death in Islam. With a focus on Angels in Islam and their connection to (the glimpse of) death during life, she focuses on the impact this has on life.