“Soft Powers” with Yasmine Nasser Diaz | AD 177

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About Yasmine: Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity. Her recent work includes immersive installation, fiber etching, and mixed media collage using personal archives and found imagery.

Diaz has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, and the Torrance Art Museum. She is a recipient of the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (2019) with works included in the collections of LACMA, UCLA, and the Arab American National Museum. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• The background behind the title of Yazmine’s latest show “Soft Powers”
• The concept of “code-switching”
• Navigating different worlds within the world we live in
• Cultural differences Yazmine 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
• Yazmine’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 
• Yazmine’s latest work
• Transforming style over time
• Authenticity

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