About Yehia O
Yehia Ossama ( b . 1987) is a n Egyptian surrealist painter, living and working in Cairo , Egypt. His work has been exhibited in group shows in Cairo , USA, Tunis, UAE and Japan.
Yehia Ossama ( b . 1987) is a n Egyptian surrealist painter, living and working in Cairo , Egypt. His work has been exhibited in group shows in Cairo , USA, Tunis, UAE and Japan.
Primarily working in oil , Ossama ’s paintings aim to merge themes of eeriness and serenity, the rational and irrational , in one place .
These dualities interblend ; opening up a visual doorway for the viewer to experience the artists’ dreamscapes and his ongoing exploration into the world of the subconscious, unobstructed by rational thought. Ossamas’ wide inventory of inspiration ranges from the natural world , architecture , and the symbolic meaning of every-day objects, to psychology and human relations. Born with Synesthesia ( evident within his oeuvre), the world around Ossama is perceived as a series of colourful connections which he investigates through painting, looking for alluring colour relations that have an innate resonance.
His intrigue in finding connections between elements that aren’t traditionally associated together arise from his interest in the subconscious , where seemingly unrelated elements weave themselves together just as in the plot of a dream. Ossama, inspired by this calculated process, gives birth to his art.
Ossama describes his creative process as an act of unpacking “Order within chaos”.
“The chaos is anything around me that can ignite inspiration. It comes in the most fleeting of notions throughout the day, like driving , for instance, and seeing a ray of light creating an interesting effect of temperature changes that seem synonymous, to me, with hopefulness that one experiences after a time of despair. Or perhaps a puddle of water on the ground that reflects the blue of the sky, then suddenly it breaks out a delicate stream of water that moves in the path of least resistance, where its essence is to carry on, which seems to be a fitting general advice to anyone . I take this chaos, and I sit with it , see where it takes me, and I forge something out of it , create subtle tweaks through several sketches, through this process of reconstruction, a new art piece emerges. “
