membership / artist member

Yara El-Sherbini

http://www.yaraelsherbini.com/
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Yara El-Sherbini (1978, London) received her MA from the Slade, UCL. In 2009 she was part of group shows at Modern Art Oxford and The David Roberts Art Foundation (London) and is showing at Lombard-Fried Projects, New York in September 2009. Her work has been shown at Tate Britain (London) Arnolfini (Bristol), National Portrait Gallery (London), IKON gallery (Birmingham), CCCB Museum (Barcelona), Art Dubai (Dubai), Centre d'Art Contemporain (Geneva) and Palazzo Papesse (Siena). Recent commissions include The Delfina Foundation, and The Live Art Development Agency.

Publications include Shiekh ’n’ Vac (Book Works), Life is More Important Than Art, Ed Gilane Tawadros and Documenting Live, a publication and DVD reflecting the work of key live artists working in the 1990’s and 2000’s, developed by The Live Art Development Agency and David A Bailey. She has work in collections at the Whitworth Museum, Can Marques Museum, and numerous international collectors.

Yara El-Sherbini was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2008 at Bloomberg SPACE.

My practice straddles live art, video, and installation, currently exploring recognizable formats within contemporary popular culture (board games, game shows, pub quizzes, and auctions) as sites to playfully explore art and life. I utilize familiar frameworks and different modes of interaction to consider accessibility and the nature of engagement, using humour as a strategy to engage audiences and diversify ideas.

My work is concerned with knowledge production and knowledge as commodity; by re-activating and playfully destabilising our relationship to knowledge, I aim to facilitate debate and dialogue around politically contentious and socially driven ideas, questioning various social and political systems of power.

http://www.lacajablanca.com/ARTISTS/artists_yarael-sherbini.html
http://www.artfutures.org.uk/Artist/yara-elsherbini

• ARTfutures 2008

  6th March — 12th March 2008
  Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD