Ali Yass

  • Ali Yass is a painter and filmmaker whose work entangles personal and collective memory in its psycho-affective interrogation of power. Though sometimes experimenting with video and text, Yass’s drawing process remains the most embodied and autobiographical part of his practice, using the blank paper to channel the atrocities of the Iraq war that he witnessed as a child.Yass carries his process on the move, generating collage-esque figures from the varying energetic paces and sensory impressions his movement entails. Yass’s work engages with the concepts of resistance, documentation, and the representation of fear.

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Ali Yass is a painter and filmmaker whose work entangles personal and collective memory in its psycho-affective interrogation of power. Though sometimes experimenting with video and text, Yass’s drawing process remains the most embodied and autobiographical part of his practice, using the blank paper to channel the atrocities of the Iraq war that he witnessed as a child.Yass carries his process on the move, generating collage-esque figures from the varying energetic paces and sensory impressions his movement entails. Yass’s work engages with the concepts of resistance, documentation, and the representation of fear.