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Interview 

Nature, landscapes and battlefields: Nadine Hattom’s Shadows on Operation Iraqi Freedom

Nadine Hattom is an Iraqi artist currently based in Berlin. Her recent series, Shadows explores the Iraqi landscape with images from the U.S. State Department of Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was on display at the Marrakech Biennale 2016. She speaks to Ruya about this, and her earlier work, combining sculpture and photography. What influenced the…
Event 

Ruya Lab #2: artist Francis Alys gives presentation in Baghdad

Ruya Foundation invited the artist Francis Alys to Iraq. In Baghdad, he gave a presentation of his work to an audience of fifty professional artists and art students from the two art colleges there. He presented the film Reel-Unreel (2011), a project shot in Kabul in which children were asked to play with an old…
Interview 

Baghdad artist Rawan al Mukhtar talks about carpets, tribes and Iraqi toilets.

Rawan al Mukhtar (b.1991, Baghdad) lives and works in Baghdad. Her most recent work, the video installation Tellaqtin, 2015, explores the relationship between Eastern and Western culture. A student at the College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad, where she has specialised in painting, Rawan often stages and photographs the scenes that she wants to portray, bringing…