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| ARTIST BIO'S | samira YAMIN bio | |
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Samira Yamin is an Iranian-American painter and printmaker living and working in Los Angeles. Her work deals primarily with Orientalism as the Western construction, appropriation, understanding and colonization of the East or Middle East. Her latest work is a visual indictment of documentary war photography as in authentic, as exploitative, and especially as falling within a larger history of colonial representations of the Midddle East. Recontextualizing harsh photojournalistic images within lush, ornate fabrics and scarves, she creates an equation that calls into question the authenticity of both elements; images of the East, to represent wars made in the West, distort and confuse the poetics of the underlying patterned scarves made in the West to look like the East. Each piece reveals, alternately, the ironies of transnational identies constructed around cultural hybridity, global trade and war. |