Evie Yussuf’s work is a process of remembering, the emotions and sensations stored in the body are translated into paint. Each layer follows a different vein within one memory, a moment that is covered and uncovered, split open and healed again. Through time, the memory begins to decay, and the remembered seeps into the imagined. The paint guides the hand as memories entwine and take on a life of their own. 

Colours and forms mutate and bleed into one another, each reminiscent of scars from a past, morphed beyond recognition. Marks are repeated like a pulse on the canvas, the rhythm of making becomes a method of thinking, a process of extracting the unknown and attempting to make sense of it. The paintings serve as an emotional x-ray, where tender marks tell the story of a human existence, in its most raw and unfiltered state.