yasmine eid-sabbagh / rozenn quéré

In her practice yasmine eid-sabbagh explores potentials of human agency by engaging in experimental, collective work processes. These include (counter-)archiving practices such as the negotiation around a potential digital archive (re)assembled in collaboration with inhabitants of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyr, Lebanon, and radical pedagogical projects such as Ses Milanes-créixer a la natura, a self-organized forest kindergarten in Bunyola, Spain, using nature as its main infrastructure. Photography often acts as a medium for her to communally investigate notions of collectivity, power, and endurance; for example, in her engagement as a member of the Arab Image Foundation, a practitioner-led archival institution, and as a focus in her PhD in Art Theory and Cultural Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2018).

After studying photography and cinema in Paris, rozenn quéré embarked on a series of artistic projects that all had one thing in common: highlighting stories from the perspective of women, men and children that reveal more about our times than they might seem at first glance.
For 20 years, she accompanied the blind artist and philosopher Evgen Bavčar, collaborated with prison inmates, published articles in the French newspaper "Mediapart" about citizens in Brussels providing accommodation to refugees, contributed to "Amour et Sagesse", a punk magazine that puts senior citizens in the spotlight, and co-produced a sound piece based on a awake brain surgery (her own)… In recent years, she has been involved in co-creation projects between residents and artists at BRASS, a cultural venue in Brussels located in a vibrant neighbourhood marked by successive waves of immigration and formerly dedicated to the beer industry.