Ensemble

yasmine eid-sabbagh
In collaboration with Tabara Korka Ndiaye and Ndeye Debo Seck
yasmine eid-sabbagh is an artist and researcher who holds a PhD in Art Theory and Cultural Studies. Her interdisciplinary practice combines research, conversational methods, and (meta)archival practices to examine the agency of photographs and to investigate notions of collectivity, power, and endurance.
Between 2006 and 2011, eid-sabbagh lived in Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyre, Lebanon, where she developed a long-term project in collaboration with the camp’s inhabitants to negotiate and co-create a potential digital archive. This dialogical process highlights the challenges and limits of representation, reflecting on memory, displacement, and identity.
Her practice also embraces radical pedagogical initiatives, expanding the role of photography and archival research beyond documentation to become tools for collective agency. eid-sabbagh’s work engages audiences through exhibitions, public lectures, performative presentations, and institutional collaborations, including with the Palestinian Museum and institutions building and residencies, amplifying conversations that are often marginalized or silenced.
The research project on solidarity and (the difficulties of) being in the world today is led by yasmine eid-sabbagh, Tabara Korka Ndiaye, and Ndeye Debo Seck. Tabara Korka Ndiaye is a Senegalese independent researcher, curator, and artist whose work centers on African feminisms, the interplay between archives, lived experiences and sites of knowledge making, and the decolonial as a lived and committed epistemic struggle. Ndeye Debo Seck is a licensed journalist and communication specialist, who has taught English in middle and high schools located in rural areas of central and southern Senegal. Their project investigates the historical and contemporary trajectories of struggle, solidarity with Palestine, while Senegal has historically been one of Israel’s closest allies, since the end of the 1960s. The research includes, among other elements, the disruption and transformation of the late Ambassador and F.E.A.R. (For Education and Artistic Research) founder Siré Sy’s archive, the Palestinian and the Black struggle, from the solidarity movement in Senegal to Black Lives Matter. The group maps past and present diplomatic entanglements, and the project seeks to critically examine the power, potentials and limits of solidarity in a shifting political landscape.

we refuse_d is produced by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, on the occasion of their 15th anniversary, and presented in partnership with M HKA.
Curated by Nadia Radwan and Vasıf Kortun.