Yasmeen’s Revenge

Yasmeen’s Revenge is a solo presentation by the visual artist Yasser Vayani. In his installation, Vayani explores the process of identity formation, specifically with regards to the gendered body, through garments and other tactile materials. His constructions suggest an absurd relationship between a human body and objects, calling attention to a common social conditioning which ascribes narrative to clothes. From high end brands to streetwear; androgynous attire to gendered baby clothes, garments are considered signifiers directly corresponding to the body beneath them. What is it that they convey about that body? Can a piece of fabric trap the body by encouraging specific and often limited readings of it? Or can it also somehow free the body by playing with those very readings? Can it in the present be reconfigured to respond to past childhood bullying and trauma?