Dad Smoking, 2013
Silk thread embroidery on embroidered silk cloth
100 x 80 cm
In Yassin’s embroidery works entitled Dancing, Smoking, Kissing(2013), he recreates scenes of lost family photographs based on personal recollection, his family’s memory and his imagination. Most of Yassin’s family photographs...
In Yassin’s embroidery works entitled Dancing, Smoking, Kissing(2013), he recreates scenes of lost family photographs based on personal recollection, his family’s memory and his imagination. Most of Yassin’s family photographs were lost due to frequent moving and displacement. These computer-generated illustrations are embroidered in a factory and produced on silk fabrics. The floating figures are layered on top of a kitschy floral print in a nostalgia for moments of intimate and celebratory interactions with relatives that are mostly remembered as temporary flashes of joy in the context of Lebanese civil war survival and its consequences on memory and emotional attachments.