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Exhibition 

Sakar Sleman’s new solo show in the Ottoman-period Turkish bath, Hamam Kifri.

The artist Sakar Sleman presented a new solo show and installation in Hamam Kifri, an Ottoman-period Turkish bath in Kifri, Sulaymaniya Province. Sleman creates small objects and installations using organic materials such as coal, earth, wood, cloth and string. In doing so, the artist uses shape, colour, texture and smell to create work that is…
PROJECT 

Book: ‘Archaic’

The exhibition ‘Archaic’, the Iraq Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale was accompanied by a catalogue published by Mousse, including texts by Francis Alÿs, Andrea Applebee, Zainab Bahrani, Joumane Chahine, Roger Cook, Ed Kashi, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Venetia Porter, Nada Shabout, Robert Storr and Aneta Szyłak. Please contact the Ruya Foundation for copies: [email protected]
Portfolio 

Venice Conversations: place, memorial and memory in Sakar Sleman’s work.

Sakar Sleman (b. 1979, Sulaymaniya) is a painter and installation artist who lives and works in Sulaymaniya. The artist has been commissioned to produce new work for ‘Archaic’, the Iraq Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Her work focuses on political, religious and social issues in Iraqi society and on women in particular. Many of…