Safi's art works have been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions, Biennials in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. His work has been collected in private collections and museums, including the National Museum in Damascus, the British Museum, the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, and the National Museum of Jordan. Safi has been working as a lecturer at the Department of Printmaking at Damascus University (1999-2001), also Adham Ismail Institute of Art in Damascus (1999-2006), and the Supervisor of the Department of Printmaking at the Sharjah Institute of Art, UAE (2006-2009). Safi has achieved the first prize award for Printmaking in Syria, 2001.
Yaser’s art work focuses, either in his painting, Etching or Sculpture practice, on the daily life, marginal and attempts to scale it up in large canvases. It is his way of freezing moments that are often observed in public life, whether on the street or in the bus, and re-articulates through colors, distorted figures and broken objects, the strangeness of the moment. His internal world, made of disruption and conflicts where it meets the external realm of the street to the point they blur into each other, and we can hardly differentiate between them. Parody and sarcasm have always been powerful tools in Yaser’s language. It has developed throughout the years and has become a way of political protest.
