Yasmine El Meleegy

Yasmine El Meleegy blurs the boundaries between art, history, and cultural heritage, creating a dynamic dialogue across time and disciplines. Her practice often combines the reimagining of everyday objects and spaces, creating participatory events that challenge and reinterpret historical narratives. Using strategies such as replication, traditional craft techniques, and mass production, she critically examines and disrupts inherited histories and cultural legacies, revealing their complexities and contradictions. Her work moves fluidly between monumental sculptural forms and intimate, meditative craft-based objects, emphasizing the materiality of memory and how it shapes our understanding of history. By weaving together narratives from industrial production and personal experience, El Meleegy challenges conventional ways histories are transmitted and reinterpreted over time. Exploring various media and modes of expression, her practice investigates how power structures embed themselves within people, stories, forms, materials, and multicultural social spaces. She also delves into processes of construction, repair, and restoration—focusing on everyday household objects, infrastructure, and architectural renovation—addressing both private, intimate environments and wider public contexts. ...