Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh was an invited artist at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (RJM) as a part of the second edition of the Artist Meets Archive programme.

She combines research, conversational, image and (meta)archival practices with long-term involvement to reflect on the agency of photographs and notions of collectivity and power. One of her long-term projects explores the impossibilities of representation, through a negotiation process around a potential digital archive assembled in collaboration with inhabitants of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyr, Lebanon. ‘Possible and Imaginary Lives’ is the story of four strong and feisty women, exiled to the four corners of the earth; four Palestinian-Lebanese sisters who have travelled through the history of the twentieth century. It is a story somewhere between documentary and delusion, biography and drama, based on family photographs and taped interviews — a narrative of both actual and imagined events. The work was developed between 2012 and 2016 together with Rozenn Quéré.

Artist Talk

On 11 August, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh was our guest for a workshop talk at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. As the event was limited in attendance due to current hygiene regulations, we recorded the talk and make it available here for listening.

Talk with Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

https://vimeo.com/423729554 (404)

More information about Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh

https://www.bakonline.org/person/yasmine-eid-sabbagh/