AD 177 | Yasmine Nasser Diaz
“Soft Powers”
“Soft Powers”
Show Notes:
- The background behind the title of Yasmine’s latest show “Soft Powers”
- The concept of “code-switching”
- Navigating different worlds within the world we live in
- Cultural differences
- Yasmine has experienced and how it has personally developed in her work
- Growing up within two different cultures and countries
- A nuanced discussion on arranged marriage and forced arranged marriage, and the hardship that came with it
- Online dating and “matchmaking” and how it has affected our world
- Yasmine’s journey to New Mexico
- Poverty, capitalism, and the disbursement of power
- Yasmine’s current work and why she chose the 90s as a timepiece
- Engagement between the artist, the content, and the viewer
- The business of art and the complications that come with selling art
- “Social practice” of art
- The complicated reality of morals and ethics within different career fields
- The concept of death and knowing what you stand for
- Being intentional of why you want power and resources
- The dynamics between parents and children
- Subminimally thinking about art
- Yasmine’s latest work
- Transforming style over time
- Authenticity
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Posted 09.29.2021
