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

I dont want anything I make to be still. My objects must not die. Instead I want to keep them permanently in a state between birth and death.

I saw Yosris work few years back and it struck me the way he presented his feelings which are not limited to a literal interpretation. Though his work is based on special attention, paradox and colored and spaced environment and enriched by establishing forms which are given noticeable ability of life. The life with its entire function and another life which is an explicit echo of repressed, deferred and pending questions we live. This artist follows a different track and always pushes for production of diversity. He attempts to find what is moral, sentimental and emotional to be a symbol and a movement. He resembles a presence which breathes with us and pokes its nose in our complex relationships.

Ayman Yosri relies spontaneously on a sign system which provides for him a wide ranged energy of metaphor, expression and an establishment of sensorial high relations through his creations. The forms in his work are human and another living life form: fish - tree - fruit - bird feathers - part of a body or lifeless things like an empty bottle- sewing machine barber chair - nail - key - a box of sardines - a box of tissues - a mirror.

He produces internal dialogue it might be a secret dialogue with oneself and others. This system, which is equivalent of languages pattern impacts artists work. Therefore, when he improvises and draws, he is precise and interprets literally his well-established forms to perpetuate a different consequent idea. Metaphor and periphrasis delete cracks In the traditional relationship between things. Though it is not an easy trend but It is definitely related to the substance of the mental and psychological activity of the art work. This does not make us see the abstract but pushes to assume and imagine the coming production. To remind us of the fact beyond the time of color and the distance and to separate us from its meaning in a more precise technical details of the art work to become a permanent trip to the question..... Question.... It is not a question of time.

Dr. Abdulmajeed As-saih
Poet, writer and an Iraqi media personality