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Yazamine Farhan

This project will be highlighting our own queer community, specifically the Hillcrest area. I’ll focus on emphasizing the importance of this neighborhood, and how its restaurants, bars, and sports leagues, foster opportunities to be with others like yourself.

The work seeks to capture a typical “weekend” in Hillcrest. By juxtaposing approaches to video and photography, I aim to show how the neighborhood is not just composed of buildings, but shaped by its people. I’m hoping my audience will leave with newfound excitement and understanding of Queer spaces.

About the Artist

In my art pieces I try to highlight San Diego’s queer community. Though we live in a more diverse and accepting state, our country is in a time full of hate and disdain towards transgender people, lesbians, gay men, and anyone else who doesn’t fit the traditional status quo.

Inspired by artists like Laura Aguilar, whose work is focused on Lesbian and Queer women, I primarily work with digital media, including video and photography, to create narrative works.

My work seeks to represent the LGBT+ community in ways that can foster empathy and understanding: to allow others to recognize what we have in common. LGBT+ individuals go out and have fun the same, they love the same, they may get in the same kind of fights, and at the end of the day, this community is just like everyone else: thriving in their own space.

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