Starting Point

2020

Hans Helfritz, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Kulturen der Welt, Fotografische Sammlung, Inv. Nr. RJHH001.05_006.

One of her long-term projects explores the impossibilities of representation, through a negotiation process around a potential digital archive assembled in collaboration with inhabitants of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyr, Lebanon. 

‘Possible and Imaginary Lives’ is the story of four strong and feisty women, exiled to the four corners of the earth; four Palestinian-Lebanese sisters who have travelled through the history of the twentieth century. It is a story somewhere between documentary and delusion, biography and drama, based on family photographs and taped interviews — a narrative of both actual and imagined events.  The work was developed between 2012 and 2016 together with Rozenn Quéré.

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh is an invited AMA artist at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (RJM).

On 11th August, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh was our guest for a workshop talk at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. As the event was limited due to current hygiene regulations, we recorded the talk and are now making it available for listening.


Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh bei Photoszene ON AIR 2020.