AMINA YAHIA

Lives and works between Egypt and the UAE Born in Cairo, Egypt, artist Amina Yahia’s work merges ideas of human interaction with folkloric and systematic influences on belief and behavior. Yahia is interested in topics such as socially influenced behavior and the ritualistic–almost spiritual–aspect resulting from its repetitiveness. Her large-scale paintings are rooted in post & neocolonial Egyptian society. The female identity is central to her practice, which she often depicts vis-à-vis portrayals of control systems and reflections of the self. Amina’s figures, often life-sized, have an underlying satirical nature. Her narratives are habitually in search of dissecting the uncanny, banal, intimate, violent, and sensual of the body together with the remnants of cultural embeddedness within bodily movement and function.