Yasmine El Meleegy (b.1991) is a multidisciplinary artist and sculptor working across sculpture, installation, writing and site-specific intervention. Using porcelain tableware, craft processes, industrial materials, her work investigates the political language of repair, preservation, and public monuments in Egypt while negotiating the terms within. Drawing from state-sponsored murals, mass production, and personal archives, she examines how public memory and collective imaginaries become embedded within surfaces and everyday materials. Many of her projects, including Stephenson Pharmacy and A Cup of Tea with Fathy Mahmoud, unfold through public interaction, positioning the audience simultaneously as material, subject, and author.
In her long term research project, she has focused on the history of porcelain in her native country and its relationship to the concept of nationalism.
Photo: Khaled Marzouk
El Meleegy is represented by Gypsum Gallery and her studio in Cairo.
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