Raed Yassin

Inspired by both conceptual art and pop culture, the work of Raed Yassin uses personal stories to interrogate collective memory. In his project Yassin Haute Couture, the artist rewrites the story of a fashion designer, Samir Yassin, who happens to be his own father – a father he barely know, who died when Raed was a child. Through fictional vehicles, he reimagines his past to resist forgetting. In Azya’s Yassin, he recreates in neon the sign of his father’s fashion house. In Proposal for a Proposal, he embroiders on archive photographs the wedding dresses that his father could have designed for brides-to-be. In Princess of Oblivion, he photographs the model Fadwa Harb wearing several outfits that his father designed for a Saudi princess, who was poisoned and murdered before she could try them on. Though appealing and innocent at first glance, these images conceal tragic fates and private traumas.

List of artworks :

Princess of Oblivion I, 2018
Princess of Oblivion II, 2018
Princess of Oblivion IV, 2018
Princess of Oblivion V, 2018
Archival inkjet prints on archival paper

Proposal for a Proposal IV, 2018
Proposal for a Proposal V, 2018
Proposal for a Proposal X, 2018
Video installation, 5’00’’ (video loop), cardboard sculptures

Azya’ Yassin, 2018
Neon