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‘An Artistic Career’: September Cartoon

The Baghdad-based caricaturist Khudair Alhimyari has drawn ‘An Artistic Career’, a new cartoon series for the month of September, commissioned by the Ruya Foundation. Climbing the Career Ladder Freedom of Expression 1st image: “Theoretical” 2nd image: “Practical” 3rd image: “Precautionary”

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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…

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Iraqi sculptor Athar Jaber to create new work for the Palestinian Museum’s inaugural exhibition ‘Jerusalem Lives’

Iraqi-Dutch sculptor Athar Jaber has been commissioned to create a new work for ‘Jerusalem Lives’, the inaugural exhibition of the Palestinian Museum in Bir Zeit, in the West Bank of Palestine, which opens this month. Twenty-eight artists from Palestine, the Middle East and other regions, including Emily Jacir, Mona Hatoum and Oscar Murillo, will produce…

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Themes of ‘Archaic’ #2: Art and War

When curating the exhibition ‘Archaic’ for the Iraq Pavilion, curators Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo selected themes within the archaic that are the precursor to any civilization. Among these, is the theme of war. While two of the participating artists at the Pavilion addressed war and conflict, here we highlight recent work by lesser-known Iraqi…