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Themes of Fatherland #2: The Boat

Serwan Baran’s The Last General (2019), a new commission unveiled at the Iraq Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, depicts the corpse of an army general floating on a reed boat. As visitors enter the Pavilion’s first room they stumble on the clay and resin sculpture. The general’s body appears rested, but his head drops backwards,…
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The Iraq Pavilion Opens to the Public

‘Fatherland,’ the Iraq Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale has opened to the public after a busy and exciting week of previews. Visitors at preview tours of the pavilion included representatives of institutions such as the Tate, Art Dubai, the Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires, the Serpentine and the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and…
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Book launch: Fatherland, the Iraq Pavilion Catalogue

The Ruya Foundation has launched Fatherland, the catalogue for the Iraq Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. The new publication includes an essay on the artist Serwan Baran by the art historian Natasha Gasparian and illustrations of Baran’s new commissions and preliminary sketches for the exhibition. As part of his research for the Fatherland exhibition, Baran collected…