Yasmeen Ally El Araby
PV: 26th September 6-8PM
Open: 27th September-6th October
Gallery Open: Friday-Sunday 12-4PM
BOTH Gallery is thrilled to present the works of printmaker Yasmeen Ally El Araby. Yasmeen, born to an Egyptian father and an English mother, was raised between the Sinai desert and Essex. Her work explores collective fiction, examining the intersection of myth and storytelling across different cultures, and the connection between cultural archetypes. Her current series is born from a deep imaginative process and an intuitive engagement with the unconscious. These prints have been organically developed to explore universal themes found in myths and stories, such as great floods, the hero's journey, the quest for knowledge, and battles with monsters.
Yasmeen believes that the cross-cultural commonalities in storytelling and oral traditions reveal patterns within the collective unconscious, highlighting a universal oneness. Her latest series revolves around a hero character, loosely inspired by bovine cave paintings, as a means of exploring archetypes in myth through the lens of imagined primordial beings. She reimagines humanity's earliest pictorial practices, juxtaposing them with archetypal themes that have persisted throughout history and continue to resonate in modern storytelling.
