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Interview

Reviving Iraq’s ancient crafts: interview with the artist Rashad Salim

Rashad Salim is an Iraqi-German artist and designer based in London. His project, Ark Re-Imagined, aims to build a functional and floating vessel that re-imagines Noah’s Ark, using indigenous ancient boat making techniques. The artist has been working with local craftspeople across Southern Iraq in this project. In May 2016, Salim was awarded a grant…

Event

Ruya Lab #4: Photography

The Fourth Ruya Lab was a day-long seminar about printing, editioning and exhibiting photography for the international art market. The workshop took place ahead of ‘Calling Calouste’ an exhibition of new Iraqi photography commissioned by Ruya, which opens on October 1 2016 at the Gulbenkian Building in Baghdad. Six of the eight photographers participating in…

News

5th Çanakkale Biennial Cancellation

We regret that the 5th Çanakkale Biennial, which was scheduled to open on 24 September, has been cancelled due to developments within a political agenda that is contradictory to the basis of the Çanakkale Biennial Initiative (CABININ). We are saddened by the turn of events and our thoughts are with the organisers and artists involved…

Defining ‘Homeland’: Artists Akam Shex Hadi and Salam Atta Sabri to participate at the 5th International Çanakkale Biennial

“Kites float in the sky and embody our desire to free ourselves in flight. But their movement is neither spontaneous nor free, they always return home”. In a new series by the photographer Akam Shex Hadi, the artist has photographed his subjects, anonymous women, men and children of the city of Sulaymaniyah, surrounded by barbed…