Amir Youssef

Biography

Amir Youssef lives and works between Paris and Alexandria, Egypte. As an artist and filmmaker, Youssef’s practice explores the intersections of pre-cinema, media archaeology, and storytelling through sculpture, installation, film, and video. His work is rooted in a fascination with the transformation of objects—their meaning, function, and history—and how they can embody the dynamics of movement and narrative. Youssef coined the term Kinemania to describe his ongoing inquiry into humanity’s obsession with visual motion, materialized through his creation of mobile, dynamic objects.

Drawing from his background in fine arts and filmmaking, Youssef critically examines themes of history, colonia...