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‘The scribe knows all our secrets’ : Film-maker Luay Fadhil on his new commission for the Iraq Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale

Luay Fadhil (b. 1982, Baghdad) is a film-maker based in Baghdad. After training as a construction engineer, Fadhil took a course in film-making at the New York Film Academy Abu Dhabi. He has since directed seven short films. Lipstick (2012), about sex education classes at a boy’s high school in Baghdad won the Gold Award…

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…

Exhibition

‘Letters from Kathmandu’ a community art project inspired by the ‘Letters from Baghdad’

‘Letters from Kathmandu’ is a community art project inspired by Salam Atta Sabri’s series of drawings, ‘Letters from Baghdad’ (2005 – 2015). The artists Sanjeev and Sunita Maharjan, co-founders of the Drawing Room in Kathmandu, Nepal, held drawing workshops with local schools and community centres across four cities in the Kathmandu Valley. The project was…

Cartoon

‘Art and War’: April Cartoon

Baghdad-based caricaturist Khudair Alhimyari has drawn a series of cartoons on Art and War, commissioned by the Ruya Foundation. In the below drawing, art overcomes all obstacles, including blast walls and war.