Be The Change You Want To See with YARA + DAVINA
YARA + DAVINA make social practice artwork, creating ambitious public artworks that respond to site, context and audience.
Unfailingly inventive, they use formats from within popular culture to make works which are accessible and playful. Their issue based work is wide ranging, from geo-politics to lessons on love, from knowledge production to mental health. Using formats such as Arrivals and Departures boards, football, tea, to lollipop ladies, they root their works in the everyday, using a lightness of touch and humour to make works that are both poetic and universal.
They’ve created artworks for multiple world leading art venues and public organisations such as Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Venice Biennale, BAM (New York), Somerset House, Manchester Art Gallery, Baltic, IKON, National Portrait Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Delfina Foundation, INIVA, Camden Council, Studio Museum Harlem, The Victoria & Albert, London, ZKM (Germany), HIAP (Helsinki), Kaunus Art Biennial (Lithuania), Modern Art Oxford, The RCA, Arnolfini, National Maritime Museum, and the ICA.
In 2016 they were joint British Council Artist Fellow’s at Portland State University, exploring ‘Motherhood; A Social Practice’.
Recent joint residencies include Seedbed Residency Programme, In Situ’s (European network for artistic creation in public space) Hothouse programme, in the Netherlands.