Vital Spaces Solo Exhibition 2024

Vital Spaces explores themes of transformation, duality, and self-discovery, reflecting Yasmin’s year-long journey of healing and growth. This introspective process involved confronting fears, peeling away protective layers, and embracing light and shadow. Her transient lifestyle fosters adaptability and resilience, making sculpting a metaphor for evolving identity.

Relocating to rural France deepened her connection with nature, influencing these works with shifts in her mental and physical landscape. Vital Spaces examines the relationship between space and life, suggesting space actively shapes experiences, much like roots sustain growth. Yasmin explores the balance between being grounded and expanding outward, infusing her creations with vitality and transformation.

Roots serve as a central metaphor, representing unseen systems that anchor and connect. Yasmin translates their resilience into abstract forms that evoke emotional aspects of identity. Each sculpture invites viewers to engage with the familiar and the mysterious, encouraging personal narratives.

Her meditative painting practice, using natural pigments, olive soap, and linseed oil, creates a dialogue between paintings and sculptures. Both mediums reflect growth from unseen origins, blending internal reflection and external expression.

Yasmin’s stone sculptures emphasize raw, intuitive expression, guided by the subconscious. Her slow, meditative carving process allows the stone to shape its form, filling space with energy.

In Lys, a textile sculpture resembling a meditation pillow, her background in fashion design re-emerges. Filled with hemp shiv, Lys anchors the sitter in introspection, with tendrils symbolizing growth and balance.

For Yasmin, space is a living presence, shaping perceptions and experiences. Her dynamic sculptures interact with surroundings, exploring the relationship between artist, artwork, and viewer. Vital Spaces invites reflection on transformation, connection, and the life force within art and existence.