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Lot 40: Ayman Yossri Daydban (Palestinian/Jordanian, lives Saudi Arabia, b. 1966)

Est: $10,000 USD - $15,000 USDSold:
Christie'sDubai, United Arab EmiratesApril 29, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Ayman Yossri Daydban (Palestinian/Jordanian, lives Saudi Arabia, b. 1966)
Maharem
acrylic on printed posters on wooden tissue boxes
41 x 106in. (104 x 270cm.)
Executed in 2006 - 2007

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

London, SOAS, Brunei Gallery, Edge of Arabia, 16 October - 13 December 2008

Notes

This lot offered for sale is subject to a 5% import duty on the importation value levied at the time of collection/shipment within the UAE.
The conceptual work (Maharem) by Ayman Yossri Daydban are prints of old Egyptian movie posters (affiche) from the 1940s to 1970s mounted on wooden tissue boxes. These posters were one of the sources of inspiration and knowing the other in the isolated society of that era. By putting them on tissue boxes, objects associated with drama and sentimentality, the whole composition seems to breathe nostalgia. When watching these films and transported to this fictional, black and white world, Ayman weeps and reaches for a tissue. The word Maharem in Arabic refers not just to tissue but to one's close family, which can also offer protection and an emotional blanket.

Auction Details

International Modern and Contemporary Art

by
Christie's
April 29, 2009, 07:00 PM UAET

Emaar Business Park, Sheikh Zayed Road Building 2, 1st Floor, Office 7, PO Box 48800, Dubai, AE