Ghinwa Yassine (Lebanon/Canada) is an anti-disciplinary artist, based on the unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh people.
Her work includes film, installation, performance, sound, text, and sculpture, text, and is concerned with the body as a site where personal and collective memory manifest.
Yassine is a shapeshifter whose practice is currently hovering in a gap between radical resistance and embracing an inner belly dancer. Her research is interdisciplinary and combines knowledge from feminist and queer theory, neuroscience, politics, and ancient history. She seeks a radical historicizing of individual and collective experiences where embodied memories manifest through story, ritual, and gesture.
Yassine holds an MFA in contemporary art and interdisciplinary studies from Simon Fraser University, an MA in Digital Video Design from the University of the Arts Utrecht, and a BA in Graphic Design from the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut.
