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Welcome To Iraq Catalogue

The Welcome to Iraq catalogue with texts by curator Jonathan Watkins and RUYA chairman Tamara Chalabi is available to purchase online through the Ikon Gallery. It is illustrated with images of selected work and recent photographs of everyday life in Baghdad, Babylon, Basra, Erbil and Sulaimaniya.
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Dodging Car Bombs: Kadhim Nwir

The abstract canvases of Kadhim Nwir (b. 1967, Qadisiyah, Iraq), which were first exhibited at the Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th Venice Biennale, reflect urban life through a combination of distressed colour and graffiti-like drawing. Stencilled letters and numbers sometimes convey clear messages – “IRAQ”, “2003” – or they embody a meaning known only…
 

Kadhim Nwir

The abstract canvases of Kadhim Nwir (b. 1967, Qadisiyah, Iraq) reflect urban life through a combination of distressed colour and graffiti-like drawing. Stencilled letters and numbers sometimes convey clear messages – “IRAQ”, “2003” – or they embody a meaning known only to the artist, superimposed on layers of vague pictorial references. Such expressive and complex mark-making,…