Raed Yassin

Raed Yassin lives and works in Beirut. He graduated from the Theatre Department of the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003, and in 2015 he was awarded a research fellowship at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. An artist and musician, Yassin's work often originates from an examination of his personal narratives and their position within a collective history, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production. One of the organizers of Irtijal Festival - Beirut's experimental contemporary music festival - Yassin has released several music albums and founded the production company Annihaya in 2009. He is also a founding member of Atfal Ahdath, a Beirut-based art collective.

Lies

Moving fluidly between different mediums, Raed Yassin’s site-specific installation in La Vitrine is a commentary on the ill-fated social and political condition surrounding us. In a dark and narrow black room, the colorful light of a neon with the inscribed word ‘Lies’ is beaming its light onto an albino kangaroo who sits still as passers go by. In its rarity, the kangaroo represents the citizen in a disillusioned society, alienated both by self and by the state. Yassin’s approach is often concealed through an array of dazzling elements that strive to reinterpret the current state of our collective consciousness. According to Yassin the artist works like a virus whose intention is to stir us away from the fabricated lies and fictitious existence.