Mona Benyamin is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work examines intergenerational perspectives on hope, trauma, and identity. Benyamin works in a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, archival material, and time-based media. In consideration of art history’s political potential, she uses humor and irony as  tools of resistance and reflection in her art practice. Her work is heavily influenced by television culture ranging from film noir to contemporary Arab pop music. In her work Trouble in Paradise (2018) Benyamin collaborated with her family as the protagonists and staged her family home as the only setting for the film.