Description

Disclaimers Prevent me from Showing Work Here – 2024

Medium: Vinyl

“Disclaimers Prevent me from Showing Work Here” is a Vinyl by the Palestinian artist Yaqeen Yamani​. Below is the writing on the Vinyl:

“As a Palestinian, Disclaimers Prevent me from showing work here,
is an artwork that responds to the presence of disclaimers as a tool of
censorship in art spaces. Through the refusal to show my thesis work
at the Temple Contemporary and instead leave my allotted space empty,
I am responding to the failure of art spaces and academc institutions to
acknowledge Palestinian voices and celebrate Palestinian art.

Will you share Rage Wlth me? will be shown off campus
at BigRamp and Information Space beginning
of April 13th – May 11th
Opening reciption April 13th 5-8 pm,

The gallery address is
2024 E Westmoreland St, Philadelphia, PA 19134

I hope you will join me there.“

Yaqeen Yamani (she/her, b.1997) is a Yemeni Palestinian photographer and artist who received a BA in Media Studies and Film from the Al-Quds Bard College and is a Fulbright Scholar with an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.Yamani is currently a resident at Twelve Arts Gates in Philadelphia and a manatee at Magnum Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, and AFAC. Her art practice includes photography, video, and printmaking. Her process centers material experimentation to explore themes of identity, rage, and grief. Through the use of language, image and text, Yamani’s current body of work focuses on modes of resistance, intervention, disruption, and reclamation. Besides her artistic practice,Yaqeen is community oriented and enjoys teaching art, photography, and organizing film screenings for the community by running a Jericho Cinema Club.

Read more about Yaqeen and explore her full collection.