El Meleegy’s practice, she draws upon cultural objects and sociopolitical events from within Egypt, focusing on memory, repair and materiality as a way of weaving together complex histories and distinct symbols. She often deal with the paradoxes of preservation and restoration through sculptural work, installations, textual work, and site-specific interventions.
her work stems from a personal impulse to repair and mend objects, and to rewrite histories-an act which both staves off, and confirms the certainty of loss. an act which led her to explore notions of repair and healing through mending affective objects - a ritual she also acquired through her mother’s desire to mend collectibles. She seek to restore an object's emotional and historic resonance by repairing its physicality - and by approaching monumental installations and as mouring rituals as archaeological sites which foster healing.
Her work has been featured in solo and group shows across Cairo, Basel, Marseille, New York, Thorsminde, Berlin, Yinchuan, Gwangju, Villorba, Venice, Milan, Jyvaskyla, Cape Town, and Kolkata. El Meleegy is the recipient of AFAC’s Visual Arts Grant, Mophradat’s Artist Grant, Culture Resource Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy Artists Grant, and is a nominee for the 7th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.
📩 contact@yasmineelmeleegy.com
📍Studio address
Hay El Fanaanin, studio number (6)
Haram City compound, 6th of October, Cairo, Egypt.