Salam Atta Sabri Archives - Ruya Foundation For Contemporary Culture In Iraq

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Watch the ‘Letters to My Father’ Film

Watch the film ‘Letters to My Father’ which shows behind the scenes footage of the Iraqi artist Salam Atta Sabri and introduces his latest publication with a conversation between Salam Atta Sabri, Tamara Chalabi and Philippe Van Cauteren. Salam Atta Sabri (b. 1953, Baghdad) is one of the most important Iraqi artists of his generation.…

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Online Book Presentation ‘Salam Atta Sabri: Letters to My Father’

Follow the book presentation ‘Letters to My Father’ by the Iraqi artist Salam Atta Sabri online on 16th February 2021 at 8 pm (GMT+1). Salam Atta Sabri (b. 1953, Baghdad) is one of the most important Iraqi artists of his generation. He was raised in an artistic environment – his father Atta Sabri was also…

Portfolio

Letters from Baghdad, Letters from Ghent: an Iraqi and Belgian artist exchange letters for two years.

Salam Atta Sabri’s series ‘Letters from Baghdad’ (2005- 2015) has inspired an ongoing collaborative project with the Belgian artist Ronny Delrue. For nearly two years, Sabri, in Baghdad, and Delrue, in Ghent, have exchanged visual letters which depict their daily lives in their home cities. The collaboration gives insight into the worlds of two artists who share a…

PROJECT

Book: ‘Invisible Beauty’

The exhibition ‘Invisible Beauty’, the Iraq Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, was accompanied by a new publication, produced by Ruya in collaboration with Mousse publishing. The publication includes specially commissioned new writing on the theme of ‘Invisible Beauty’ by Iraqi writers Ali Badr, Fares Haram, Sherko Bekas and Atyaf Rasheed, a text on Iraq’s…