Inass Yassin Studio: Palestinian artist
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The artist uses photo albums as a way to negotiate the representation and exhibition of women's portraits. Portrait painting is employed to challenge and unravel the censorship imposed on these women’s faces, allowing them to be exhibited as art. This project highlights themes of visibility, identity, and empowerment.
Beauties of The Town, Artist Inass Yassin, Art Exhibition Opening at The Museum, Old town, Asira Ashamalyieh, Nablus, Palestine.
Saturday 27th August 2022 at 4:00 pm
27th August- 4th September 2022
Exhibition Sections:
Beauties of The Town
2022 Beauties of The Town, The Museum, The old center of Asira Ash-Shamalieh, Palestine
"Beauties of the Town." In this project, the artist uses photo albums as a way to negotiate the representation and exhibition of women's portraits. Portrait painting is employed to challenge and unravel the censorship imposed on these women’s faces, allowing them to be exhibited as art. This project highlights themes of visibility, identity, and empowerment. The final exhibition included oil-painted portraits, watercolor greeting paintings, a multimedia homage installation, and a site-specific decorated theater design, all produced by the artist.
"Childhood memories, ingrained in my mind and the minds of multiple generations until the mid-nineties, came flooding back. The vibrant imagery of the colorful stage, a dream I had cherished, materialized when I recreated it in the heart of the old town. I wasn't the only one overwhelmed with joy to see the stage reappear before me after decades; hundreds of townsfolk, spanning generations that had experienced this stage in their youth, shared in the delight. As the colorful stage graced the heart of the old town during the Beauties of The Town exhibition, everyone reveled in its presence, dancing with joy for several days before it vanished once more. From this entire experience, I found myself infused with even more colors. Out of it emerged a collection of small watercolor drawings, capturing the essence of joy and vibrancy that characterized the stage, significantly influencing my subsequent works"
The exhibition Bride and Groom: Beauties of The Town, presents a diversified treatment of photographs borrowed from family albums and photos in Asira Al-Shamaliya town, most of which were developed and printed in the eighties of last century at Studio Cairo in Nablus. The albums contained scenes of the LOJE: the personalized colorful stage that was designed and built in the house or garden of each family celebrating a wedding.
This exhibition Bride and Groom is part of an ongoing project of research, archiving and visual production since 2019. The project is in partnership with the municipality of Asira Al-Shamaliya and supported by the @afac.fund Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - AFAC، and A.M. Qattan Foundation, the Amideast Alumni Program and with contribution by Osama and Hadeel Yassin.
Al-Loje: The Rural Theater: Decorated stage and performance.
Al-LOJE: The Rural Theater, interactive sculpture and performance, 2022
Exhibition: The Beauties of The Town. The Museum, The Old Town, Asira Ash-shamalyieh.
Dimensions: 3x4.5x3.45 m
Materials: wood, rugs, tapestries, textiles, chairs, balloons, plastic decorations and candies.
Al-LOJE: Performance at the Opening:
Zinnar Troup ,Osama Yassin, Hadeel Fadda, Kareem Yassin, Ritta Hamadneh
Production Assistants: Ahmad Dirar, Hanan Sawalha, Mo'az Hamadneh
اسم العمل : (اللوج: المسرح الريفي) من افتتاح معرض مزيونات البلد
اسم المعرض: مزيونات البلد ٢٠٢٢
اسم العمل : اللوج: المسرح الريفي
منحوتة وعمل أدائي تفاعلي
القياس الخارجي للمنحوتة المسرح: 3x4.5x3.45
المواد المستخدمة: اضاءات، من خشب، قماش، كراسي، سجاد، و مواد مختلفة ، وملبس.
عمل أدائي عروس وعريس في افتتاح المعرض :
أداء : أسامة ياسين، هديل فضة، كريم ياسين، ريتا حمادة و فرقة الزنار
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Beauties of The TownArt Exhibition Opening at The Museum, Old town, Asira Ashamalyieh, Saturday 27th August 2022 at 4:00 pm27th August- 4th September 2022
Youth Dabka Troupe and Zaytouna Folklore Troupe volunteered and performed at the opening without any prior planning.
The Zinnar troup who arrived to perform the opening
These watercolor paintings created within the scene of the decorated theater done by the design, style, and taste of rural communities in a Palestinian village during the 80s. Full of vibrant colors, it features olive branches, pomegranate branches, colorful tapestry, rugs with illustrations of animals, mythology of Venus, and numerous family portraits, chairs, balloons, and decorations. The mise-en-scène creates an intense, lively depiction of rural life, vibrant and colorful, as part of the painting project by Inass Yassin. The project includes an edition with greetings where the artist employs different seasons like Easter and Ramadan. The tapestry and rugs in some of the theaters feature mosque and religious symbols, with each house having its own unique decoration. These watercolor paintings are part of the larger show 'Beauties of the Town.' They were exhibited in the first floor of The Museum of The Old Center in Asira Ash- shamalyieh, Palestine
"Using my skill in portrait painting, I embarked on a journey of negotiation to address the reserved attitudes toward exhibiting photos of women." The process of negotiation, painting, organizing the exhibition as an intervention, and building the theater was guided by a deep inclination toward joy and enlightenment, culminating in an opening where everyone eventually came together to celebrate.
Homage to Abu Jameel story. 2008-2019
Building The Theater
Installing the Banners
The Heart of The Old Center, last day.
Sweet Helpers
Prepare the Balloons
Sing Ritta sings, we are done.
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