PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM | US | 2019
Samira Yamin (Los Angeles, CA)
Samira Yamin dismantles photographic imagery to expose their internal mechanisms and personal, cultural and political impact. Her past projects reflect rigorous engagement with how war photography constructs and distorts one side of a conflict and adventurous use of non-photographic media. Approaching the Penumbra residency with a solid idea for a new body of work related to her family history and the aim to work directly in the medium of photography, we look forward to seeing what the collaboration between Samira and the Foundation’s facilities, expertise and lens collection, will likely yield.
–Alissa Schoenfeld (Director of Yossi Milo Gallery. Member of the 2019 Jury).
Image © Samira Yamin. Fire VII, from the series “Geometries”, 2017, 15 3/8x10 3/8inches, Hand-cut TIME Magazine Pages.
“[… ] My work aims to cultivate a critical and dynamic relationship to photographs of war, and a practice of viewership with an eye toward the global, political contexts and ramifications of representation, while nurturing an affective, loving gaze toward the individual lives represented and at stake. [ …]”
Samira Yamin (b.1983) received an MFA from UC Irvine and BAs in Art and Sociology from UCLA. She has had solo exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and PATRON Gallery, and has been included in numerous group exhibitions including at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Camera Club of New York, Metropolitan State University in Denver, and San Francisco State University. A recipient of grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the California Community Foundation, Yamin has been an Artist in Residence at the Rauschenberg Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
