Yasmina Hilal’s first solo exhibit, is an assortment of the artist’s personal experimentations and excavations.

The showcased analog collages encapsulate intimate and delicate moments of artistic catharsis. For Hilal, art serves as a form of trauma therapy- a medium for processing, expanding, and contracting conscious and unconscious landscapes.
Textures and layers intertwine, overlay, or merge with analog photographs that have been spliced, splashed, and stapled together.

“To me, scars are a form of beauty and survival,” she reflects. The ‘scars’ that Hilal constructs are emblematic of her love for form, and the deconstruction thereof. Employing fashion as a medium of composition and contortion, Hilal teeters around the notions of beauty standards, creating pieces that are photographs, collages, and sculptures, all at once.
“The idea for me is to create this peculiar oddity,” she explains.

Like a snake, her body of work glides through visual and emotional landscapes, both variable and static. While snakes often evoke fear due to their venomous and deadly qualities, in Trial & Error, Hilal pays homage to their essence of renewal and adaptability.