Inass Yassin’s multifaceted practice focuses on themes rooted in her personal experience. She examines modernity in the Arab mind through the disappearance of social and cultural networks, exploring this through photography, film and installation, and interrogating the material and immaterial causes of the dissipation of the Arab cultural renaissance. The transformation of spaces and urban gentrification in Ramallah and neighbouring cities such as Beirut and Amman have also been a focus. Yassin’s large-scale paintings, in acrylics and oils, are visceral and immediately felt. The result of a reaction to the overwhelming construction and urbanisation of Ramallah, which has gradually blocked her vision of the horizon and the sea, she marks her surfaces with swathes of paint and intricate detail, evoking dark and tumultuous atmospheres. God Bless is a light installation that references social, cultural and traditional sublimations. The light boxes – which state, in Arabic, ‘Bless this earth whether it is holy or not’ – beckon a break from indoctrinated thought in order to look at the landscape and oneself in a whole, realistic and unified way. God Bless, 2017.
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