Date | 5 – 20 June 2025 | Hôtel des Trois Couronnes |
Venue | Around the city - Exhibition Sobremesa |
Price | Free |
Where the table ends
Yasmine El Meleegy (EG)
A site specific installation of new sculptures, reappropriated from the extraordinary story of a woman who submerged five sets of fine china underwater to protect them from a fire explores the paradoxes of trauma, fear and preservation.
The installation takes an archaeological approach to industrial porcelain tableware molds, using them as symbols of personal reparation, societal reform, and forms of resistance, examining how intimate spaces become sites of political consciousness.
More about Sobremesa Visual Art Exhibition here and the Guided Tours here.
Yasmine El Meleegy is a multidisciplinary artist who embodies the roles of sculptor, designer, museologist, restorer, and archaeologist. She holds a BFA in Painting from Helwan University and a Diploma in Multimedia from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Nimes. Through site-specific interventions, she explores memory by using replication, traditional craft, and mass production to disrupt inherited histories and cultural legacies. Blending monumental sculptures with meditative forms of craftsmanship, her practice questions materiality and both industrial and personal narratives, challenging how history is transmitted and inherited.
IG: @yasmineelmeleegy
www.yasmineelmeleegy.com
Photo credits: Khaled Marzouk