Yasmina Lahjij earned an MFA at Sorbonne University, Paris and is currently studying Art Theory at EHESS, Paris. Her practice repurposes discarded and humble materials, such as wrapping papers and food packaging. The materials bear the traces of their previous existence, attesting to the memory of their original purpose. Questioning the notions of value and form, she tries to find ways to understand, represent and reinterpret the inherent contradiction and ambivalence of the world that surrounds her. In the Butchery series, fleshy mass irradiates, and drawing becomes an attempt to produce a non-threatening image where the flesh is depicted in a myriad of dashes.
