Artist Story

Yara El Sherbini

By: Yara El-Sherbini

What do I do?

Yara Elsherbini, ‘Temporary McShelter’.Part of a United Nations Survival Kit

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Yara Elsherbini, ‘Temporary McShelter’.

Part of a United Nations Survival Kit

I know what I want to do as an artist with political activist ideas, I want to open my world to other people, using any medium to make my ideas visible.
Right now I'm experimenting, changing a context to create political undertones.

-a 'make your own United Nations symbol' Jelly mould. (included in a 'United Nations survival kit')
-a water-soluable refugee tent. (Temporary housing)
-a 'White House' edition of Microsoft Windows.

I'm simply looking at the world and asking questions, attempting to engage an audience with playful thought-provoking work.

Yara El Sherbini: The context changes.
Y.E.S I'm an artist.
Can I experiment with art?...Y.E.S
Y.E.S I wear Glasses.
I'm at the 9th International Cairo Biennale..and
Y.E.S no-one has heard of it.
Y.E.S I misplace things.V Y.E.S I have just discovered the pleasures of goats cheese.
Y.E.S I've made people laugh and cry.
Y.E.S This is my 10th attempt to write this.
Y.E.S I do art.

www.yaraelsherbini.com
www.mute-dialogue.com/yara

Yara El-Sherbini

Yara El Sherbini is a British-Egyptian-Trinidadian-
Northerner living down South.

yara.myzen.co.uk

First published: a-n Magazine November 2003 as ‘It makes cents’