Yann Houri

Yann Houri

b. 1990, France

The paintings of Yann Houri focuse on the complexity of the human subject and translates human

emotions and time challenges into how we define ourselves in this mechanical and virtual age. The

capture of each moment of life and each vibration is what human kind fails to admire in a

contemporary lifestyle that pushes him to play constantly against time rather than cooperate with it

in order to appreciate the present even before trying to plan the future and regret the past. His art

interrogates our way to behave in a day to day life and put a strong emphasis upon the

contemplation of the beauty of our own emotions and actions as present acts and vectors of energy.

In an age where human creativity is data is comprised of replicable code, the works confront the

viewer with a radical question of “What am I?”

Yann Houri was born in 1990 in Paris, France. He is a self-taught artist, currently living and

working in Paris. Today, well known for his unique style of work, he stands apart from his

contemporaries with his commendable and comparatively novice use of different media and

techniques, which allow him to explore his fascination of Man Kind’s daily choices and the
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