Photo Credit: Yumna Al-Arashi
For Yumna Al-Arashi, the body is the site of power. The Yemeni-Egyptian-American artist, whose first solo museum show, "Body as Resistance," is currently running at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, began her career as a self-taught documentary photographer before her practice evolved into something more conceptual and political: self-portraiture as resistance.
Growing up in the US after 9/11, surrounded by a media culture that reduced Arab people to a single, dangerous stereotype, Yumna found herself having to unlearn what she was being shown. She began to ask: How do you inject your own perspective into a narrative built to exclude you?