Samira Yamin

Samira Yamin is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores and critiques how images are used to narrate, what she terms “a nebulous middle-east”, as a place of perceived conflict. Samira Yamin’s Entrainment Exercises (2023) are unique prints developed from a series of negatives the artist received from her paternal grandfather, who was training as a professional gymnast in Iran during the 1950s. Employing her own analog process by which water ripples over the images as they are being developed, Yamin shifts the subject of the images from the individuals pictured to her own psychological processing of these images. Yamin’s re-engagement with the images animates an otherwise untapped connection to her family’s past through this act of image-making, that suggests a sense of play, and belies the separation forced by time, space, and migration.