Dina Mimi is a Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker based between Palestine and the Netherlands. The artist works with experimental filmmaking and lecture performances that research how and when bodies become sites of resistance. These questions find their material interest in moving images, especially found footage, that has been discarded and therefore deemed ‘invaluable’. Understanding editing as a playground, Mimi plays with opacity in moving images by seeking to brush up against footage that desires to be ungraspable or is in the act of vanishing. This continuous attempt at nonlinear narration offers a way of disfiguring one’s imagination of bodies as sites of resistance.
Dina Mimi participates in Sharjah Biennial 16 as part of Bilna'es' project curated by Adam HajYahia.