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Sadik Kwaish Alfraji: In Search of Lost Baghdad

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji: In Search of Lost Baghdad
Library Shelf Location 18.ALFR
Publication Date 2021
Description

Published with an eponymous exhibition in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, this catalogue provides an overview of works created there by immigrant Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji between 2016 and 2021, together with the oeuvre he produced in Iraq in the 1980s. Central to this cartography is a reflection on Baghdad, the artist’s own family history of migration, and his experiences in Iraq during the turbulent years he spent working there. His characteristic black linework and melancholic undertone is immediately noticeable, symbolic of the Baghdad of old, a cosmopolitan capital that is now a thing of the past. These are stories of migration and loss, but also of rising above hardship.

ISBN 9789490153342
Quantity 1
Pages 216
Authors Philippe van Cauteren, Sarah Johnson, Nat Muller, Venetia Porter, Robbert Roos
Format Paperback
Publisher Alauda Publ. / Kunsthal Kade
Category Artists' Monographs A-Z
Keywords Iraq, Family, Migration, Baghdad, 1980s
Language English

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