Yara Said
Syria/SOCIAL DESIGN/
Yara’s body of work encompasses diverse media, subjects and methods, such as music production and sound design, film and video production, DJing, live performance and painting, as well as education and community organization with the Salwa Foundation, which she co-founded in 2019. In 2020 Yara graduated from the Sandberg Institute's Fine Arts master's degree, with research into sound as a tool for contemporary emancipatory practices. This topic arose from her own experience and memory of sound and noise, confronted with the oppressive systems at play in both the Middle East and Europe.
Said's work revolves around violence, disruption and interference, and seeks ways to transcend identity politics. It addresses the trauma caused by "sound terrorism" and the suppression of freedom of expression that populations face. Yara believes there is a lack of research on these issues, and when there is, often produced from a Eurocentric point of view.
PRESENTING
“The last supper”, an interactive installation, is an iteration of the project child’s play that invited people to experience a dinner that almost never happened.
An audio-visual installation where people can experience the objects arranged in the room, stimulating all senses, taste, touch, hearing, smell, and seeing.
The objects have been collected by the artists following the ancient art of memory; these images that she manipulated are planted in the installation room to invoke imaginative pictures by adding sound.
The audience is invited to share the memory of the artists from her early memories when she was a child to when she left her home town. Because of that, the work is never finished; every time the artists stumbled upon a Middle Eastern supermarket, these different small spaces and encounters can hardly encapsulate a full, once vibrant country.