The six hundred seventy-four forms and a dragon

Yasmine El Meleegy is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist who is also a sculptor and a time-traveling archaeologist. In addition to exhibitions in institutions and galleries, she repeatedly presents her work in public spaces. El Meleegy is concerned with the representation of history, with the past and memory. In doing so, she explores the question of how these very constructs can be repaired. For her solo exhibition "The six hundred seventy-four forms and a dragon," El Meleegy takes up her research on "Future Farms," which she started in 2013. One central work in it consists of oversized tomatoes lined up in military fashion, titled "Organic." In it, she references so-called future projects, such as Sahara plantations growing organic food in the middle of the desert and drawing groundwater that is lacking elsewhere. A magazine will be published at the end of the exhibition. Yasmine El Meleegy (*1991) lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. She studied at the University of Helwan in Cairo from 2008 to 2013, where she graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 2013. In 2014, she received her diploma in MultiMedia from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Nimes, France. In 2016, she participated in "Mass Alexandria", an Independent Study Program in Alexandria, Egypt and, in 2022, she was a fellow at the "ACF" Summer Academy African Cultural Fund in Tunis, Tunisia. Artist website For Space Public artist talk: Yasmine El Meleegy will be a part of the lecture series by the Center for African Studies in Basel on 03.10.2023 from 10.15 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.