"Untitled 21", 2016. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm.
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"Untitled 22", 2016. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 70 x 100 cm.
"The Death of Marat", 2016. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 70 x 100 cm.
"Untitled 25", 2016. Acrylic, pastel and charcoal on paper, 50 x 70 cm.
"Untitled 26", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 50 x 67 cm. Collection of Schulz-Stübner-Stiftung, Kirchzarten, Germany.
"Untitled 27", 2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 50 x 65 cm.
"Untitled 28", 2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 70 x 100 cm.
"1992; Now" series, 2016-2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 100 x 70 cm. Private Collection, Copenhagen.
“I will not talk about war because it is from the past. But I will talk about
resistance because it is "now"; that now which is deferred forever”.
"Now; 1992": Series of 70 drawings on paper, acrylic, calligraphy ink (Gakusyo), pencil and pastel on paper, dimensions variable, 2017/2019.
Every time I remember that I do not possess a single drawing from my childhood not even a photograph documenting that early practice allowing me to see my foothold in "painting" as most painters do under "normal" circumstances, I only find my imagination, which lacks a tangible, sensory evidence. Recalling, however, all my first sketches with their motifs and textures, it gives me certainty that these tracings form one extended piece/biography. A piece that grows and expands for those exhausted by long distance races, creatures inhabited by apprehension, revealing their tongues in a proclamation of thirst and coming to life with an epic sense of hope and brilliant colors.
This work evokes fragments of myself -not from the present but from the past- my childhood specifically. It incessantly seeks the justice that lies in the victory of poetic imagination over an abhorrent reality.
In this context of a trajectory cut short, growth amputated, the practice of drawing becomes a crude form of resistance. Between an occupation and the dismantling of a deadly siege, a childhood and its drawings drift further away. And in exile where the sketches of academia get scattered the place becomes permanently temporary, and time suspended until further notice becomes a flagrant means of rectifying life.
Extending over three years and three different cities, this work represents an attempt to restore an impaired archive and a denial of a publicised death.
“1992; Now” series “Untitled 15”, 2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 70 x 100 cm. Private Collection, Amman.
“1992; Now” series “Untitled 8”, 2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm. Museu de l’Art Prohibit, Barcelona.
“1992; Now” series “Untitled 12”, 2017. Acrylic, pastel and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 70 x 100 cm. Museu de l’Art Prohibit, Barcelona.
"Untitled 29", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 50 x 65 cm.
"Untitled 30", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 70 x 100 cm.
"Untitled 31", 2017. Acrylic, pastel and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 70 x 100 cm. Collection of AKAT-KADIST, Paris, France.
"Untitled 32", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 70 x 100 cm.
“1992; Now” series “Untitled 10”, 2017. Acrylic, pastel, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm. Museu de l’Art Prohibit, Barcelona.
"7 days in Beirut", series of 7 drawings.
"7 days in Beirut", series of 7 drawings.
"The 1st Day", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 112 x 76 cm. Artist's private collection, Berlin.
"The 2nd Day", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 76 x 112 cm. Artist's private collection, Berlin.
"The 3rd Day", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 76 x 112 cm. Artist's private collection, Berlin.
"The 4th Day", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 76 x 112 cm. Artist's private collection, Berlin.
"The 5th Day", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 76 x 112 cm. Artist's private collection, Berlin.
"The 6th Day", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 76 x 112 cm. Artist's private collection, Berlin.
"The 7th Day", 2017. Acrylic, pencil and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on arch paper, 76 x 112 cm. Artist's private collection, Berlin.
"Untitled 24", 2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 50 x 65 cm.
"Untitled 33", 2017. Acrylic on paper, 60 x 70 cm.
"Untitled 34", 2017. Acrylic, pencil, pastel and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 50 x 65 cm.
“1992; Now” series “Untitled 14” 2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm. Museu de l’Art Prohibit, Barcelona.
"Untitled 35", 2017. Acrylic, pastel and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm.
“1992; Now” series “Untitled 1”, 2017. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm. Museu de l’Art Prohibit, Barcelona.
“1992; Now” series “The First Step in the Zoologischer Garten”, 2017. Acrylic, pastel and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm (for each). Artist's private collection, Berlin.
“1992; Now” series “Untitled 3”, 2017. Acrylic, pastel and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 100 x 70 cm (for each). Museu de l’Art Prohibit, Barcelona.
"Resistance Memoir", 2017-2018. Acrylic and calligraphy ink (Gakusyo) on paper, 112 X 76 cm. Private collection, Washington D.C.
“The Rainy Days" series of 16 drawings
“The Rainy Days" series of 16 drawings
Homage to Sophie Scholl
Homage to Sophie Scholl
“Six billion leaflets were dropped in Western Europe and 40 million leaflets dropped by the United States Army Air Forces over Japan in 1945 during World War II. One billion were used during the Korean War while 31 million have been used in the war against Iraq.”
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During the first days of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, there was a huge sand storm going on for days; which stopped the occupation army of moving towards Baghdad. As a kid, I was hoping for the rain to clear the air from dust but at the same time I was happy that the army could see nothing in such weather. Later, it rained; rained so many leaflets.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 1”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing. Faisal Al Hassan collection, Dubai.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 2”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing. Faisal Al Hassan collection, Dubai.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 3”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing. Faisal Al Hassan collection, Dubai.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 4”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 5”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 6”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing. Faisal Al Hassan collection, Dubai.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 7”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 8”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 9”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 10”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 11”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 12”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 13”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 14”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 15”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“The Rainy Days Series; Untitled 16”. Acrylic and calligraphy Chinese ink on paper, 53.5 x 78 cm. 2019-Ongoing.
“About the Cloudy Days” series, 2020-Ongoing, Chinese ink and acrylic on paper, dimensions variable.
“About the Cloudy Days” Series of 7 drawings.
“About the Cloudy Days” Series of 7 drawings.
Homage to the young women and men of October revolution in Iraq.
“Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 2003, 15 – As soldiers here drop a bundle of the latest “Baghdad Now” newspaper onto the sidewalk, Iraqi children pounce on the newspaper heap as if it were a fumbled football during the World Cup.”
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Sixteen years later, those very children are publishing the first issues of Tuktuk newspaper, an additional platform in Liberation Square, Baghdad. And sometime between those two moments, these drawings came to be.
"Munich 72", 2021. Chinese ink and acrylic on paper, 50 x 65 cm.
"High jump", 2021. 65 x 97 cm. Chinese ink on Misumi Kozo paper.
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