This play is a reflection on the (im)possibility of accepting diversity and the other. The fragmented body of the neoplasm—the fruit of unstable conditions—overcomes barriers, loves and denies itself and others, wanders around, forgetting its profession. It frequently and with pleasure divides, goes through dangerous palpation, questions the possibility of contact with the experience of the other. Poorly brought up but very successful, it invites us to a trans-species transition.
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Yasmine El Meleegy is an independent multidisciplinary artist and sculptor who is also a time-traveling archaeologist. Through her work, She creates participatory events to instantiate counter-narratives. Her work is concerned with the representation of history, repair and materiality in relation to histories of places such as her latest performative intervention at Stephenson’s 100-year-old pharmacy in downtown Cairo "Scaffolding a Familiar Epoch.“
Her practice stems from a personal impulse to fix and mend, an act which both staves off, and confirms the certainty of loss. Approaching defunct, damaged household items with painstaking care, she seeks to restore an object's emotional and historic resonance by repairing its physicality by creating monumental installations and artifacts as archaeological sites of the future. Through her project ”A Cup Of Tea With Fathy Mahmoud", She explores a moment of rupture that reconfigured systems of governance and class dynamics in Egypt.
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Upcoming
September 12, 2025
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500 Sampsonia
Yasmine El Meleegy (b.1991) is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist and sculptor living and working in Cairo. She holds a BFA in Painting from Helwan University in 2013, and a Diploma in Multimedia from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Nimes in 2014. Before joining the MASS Alexandria independent art program in 2016. She has shown her work in a solo exhibitions titled "The Six Hundred Seventy Four Forms And A Dragon” at FOR Space, Basel in 2023, “ To Mend Is To Shatter’’ at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo in 2023, “Rites of Passage” at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo in 2018, and carried out a performative intervention at Stephenson Pharmacy in Cairo, “Scaffolding a Familiar Epoch” in 2021. She is a nominee for the 7th edition of the Future Generation Art prize 2024. She is the recipient of AFAC Visual Arts Grant, Mophradat Artists Grant, Culture Resource Al-Mawred Al- Thaqafy Artists Grant, 2021, Lieux publics, 2022, Pro Helvetia, 2018, and has taken part in residencies at Art Omi: Artists, New York, 2019, at Atelier Mondial Basel, 2018, at The Egyptian Academy in Rome, 2015 and at CAOS Museum in Italy, 2015. Her work is in the collection of MOCA Yinchuan, China. Her work has previously been shown at: 2023 CULTURESCAPES festival, Basel, 2023 " A Cup Of Tea With Fathy Mahmoud book" Esmat publishing list at Giselle Salon-readers and publishers meeting, Marseille and Focal Point, Sharjah. 2022 NAJM – New Artistic Journeys around the Mediterranean sea at Lieux publics in Marseille, France. 2021 REDZONE- Inner Spaces festival, KKV. 2020 Art Off Screen, NYC. 2018 Regionale 19 at Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Switzerland, 2017 “Very Sustainable- Environmental Revelation” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan,China, 2017 ‘’Urban Implosion’’Acc Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea. 2016 12th Dak’Art in Dakar, Senegal. 2015 Bjcem Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale, Milan, Italy.
