"Color Therapy" Artwork

Yasmine Samir Borro is a Belgian contemporary artist creating vivid mixed-media worlds inhabited by human, animal and imagined figures. Born and raised in Ivory Coast, she is based in Brussels. Painting has been a constant in her life since early childhood. At the age of five, she won a drawing competition in Ivory Coast and appeared on television to speak about her work.

Her upbringing in a family with a longstanding engagement with African art forms part of the cultural context of her independent practice.

Working across painting and mixed media, Borro builds layered surfaces using acrylic, drawing, ink and textured relief. Her compositions are inhabited by hybrid figures—part human, part animal, part imagined—whose identities remain deliberately open.

At the centre of her practice is the ongoing series Imaginary Friends, in which childhood memories become spaces for transformation, freedom and invention. Bold colour, rhythmic lines, tactile surfaces, recurring faces, masks and symbolic forms give the works an immediate presence while inviting a slower, more intimate reading.

In L’Art pour tous, she reworks illustrated pages through colour, drawn contours and layered forms. This series of original works on paper brings inherited images into conversation with new imagined presences.

Her work has been exhibited in Brussels and Beirut, including at Galerie des Dominicains and in the group exhibition Street Talk at Minus 1 in 2013. In 2026, selected work was presented at The Vault Art Gallery in Brussels over a three-month period. Selected paintings were also presented at Espace Centsix in Brussels in 2026.

Borro studied fashion in Brussels and Paris before pursuing her self-taught artistic practice.