You Can Smoke Me

You Can Smoke Me (Feminised Patriarchy’s Pyramid)
Feminizing is a patriarchal

The work is a visualization of the patriarchy dilemma stimulated continually in our social systems. It is a performative installation that contains a feminised weed plant surrounded by drawings of the five stages that Yazan Maksoiud questioned in the power systems influenced by the patriarchal theory in our society. Yazan will install his own feminised tree that was prepared to serve this kind of power agency development in our life. Here, they will be revealing an image of how our bodies were controlled to behave and grow in specific ways that serve these developments of the dominant powers in our social pyramid. On other hand, this work deals with a real plant as a medium of research and work in his art. This dead tree will be constituting a real image of the rushed life circle we all live in this big capitalistic system ruling our world nowadays. How our bodies nature is moulded to behave in these systems? What are these realities we live in?

Yazan Maksoiud was born in Damascus, but he is not a Damascene. They told him he was an immigrant from Salamiyah – a village in the middle of Syria, but also he was not the son of Salamiyah. Yazan arrived in Europe after the outbreak of the Syrian war as a son of Syria, but he was surprised that he only knew a little about Syria. Today he lives in the Netherlands, but he is also not Dutch. In the end, it seems he is the son of all these lands together.

“These stories made me travel with a nomadic identity, which was assembled and sustained by them altogether. Throughout all my travels, I have always been fascinated by the continuous fight against patriarchal powers and their relation to the global inequalities that torment people’s lives and cultures. So, It became my primary anxiety to follow this patriarchal authority and to engage in every action that uncovers and breaks it through Art. I always want to discover how I can contribute to creating a more harmonious and just life for all through my Art.”