COURAGE IN CREATIVITY

The Ruya Shop presents work by the Baghdad-based caricaturist Khudair Alhimyari. ‘Chairs’ is a cartoon series that explores politicians and their obsession to remain in power. An obsession that often comes at the cost of everything and everyone. ‘Chairs’ will be shown from 30 August to 12 October 2019, at the Ruya Shop, Mutannabi Street,…

The Ruya Shop presents new video work by the photographer and filmmaker Akam Shex Hadi. Travels in Assyria (2018) traces the aftermath of the recent war in Mosul, while drawing on Iraq’s ancient and colonial history. The film brings together two different scenes of a school play at the Assyrian rooms of the the Louvre…

For ‘Reanimation’ British artist Oliver Beer (b. 1985) presents two video works, both based on well known scenes from Disney films and produced by Beer in collaboration with school children in France and Britain. Reanimation [Alice Falling] (2016) reconstructs a scene from Alice in Wonderland (1951) in which Alice falls into a rabbit hole and…

The Ruya Shop presents ‘Home Grounds’, a screening of three video works by the Berlin-based artist Hiwa K. The artist fled Iraq in 1996 and studied at the Akademie der Bildende Kunst in Mainz. His installation, video and performance-based work explores his personal experiences of Iraq, migration, and conflict. The presentation includes Hiwa K’s early…