Yazmine Labban

My work is a journey through memories, stories passed down to me from my relatives. I am inspired by local history and seek to find the hidden pieces of untold information. I came to PCA thinking I would explore and learn through paint but I am actually focused on drawing. I find drawing to be the foundation, and route in, to both printing and painting. 

I am interested in using tactility, sightlines and senses, to create the atmosphere which flows through my work. When Federico Fellini said “all art is autobiographical”, he wasn’t wrong-I think to make art is to seek something from the soul, a language that we engage in with ourselves which has a ripple effect when it then resonates with others.

In my art I was on a quest to meet myself, but the more prominent question was, for me, why I exist at all.