Ayman Yossri Daydban (b. 1966) is a Palestinian-Saudi artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, video and printmaking, exploring the issues of identity and belonging.
The Jeddah-based artist’s works frequently engage with the tension between East and West through text superimposed on images, touching on alienation and the difficulties of translating customs across cultures. Moreover, he combines everyday objects with elements of popular culture to evoke a sense of fractured identity and displacement.
Daydban’s solo exhibitions raise questions about personal and collective belonging in an ever-globalized world, such as The Line held at Athr Gallery in AlUla in 2024. Recent group shows include In the Presence of Absence, Desert X AlUla 2024 by the Desert Biennial and Feeling the Stones, Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh (2021).
Additionally, the artist’s works are in the permanent collections of the British Museum, London, and the Greenbox Museum, Amsterdam.
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