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Los Angeles-based artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz can best be described as a collagist—not only of images clipped and rearranged, but also of heritages, cities, languages, and decades.
Born in Chicago to Yemeni parents, the multidisciplinary artist makes works that explore the complexities of third-culture identity. Adolescence, not only as an age but as a conceptual stage of learning, is a recurrent subject of inquiry for the artist. In her ongoing “Bedroom” series, Diaz constructs immersive bedrooms for fictional two Arab American teenage sisters. The room is filled with journals, novels, makeup, and set in what is meant to be a 1990s Midwestern home.
Fabrics play a vital role in her work. Diaz has recently begun a series of fiber etchings in which she applies acidic paste to velvet fabrics. The process allows the fabric’s cellulose fibers to dissolve, while the base silk-based mesh remains intact, creating patterns of opacity and transparency. In fashion, this treatment of fabric is called devoré, and harkens to a Yemeni style of dress (known as a dir’) that is reserved for married women.
Following exhibitions at the Arab American Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, Diaz recently installed her work, For Your Eyes Only, at NADA House on New York’s Governors Island (on view through August 1).
