Скачать или смотреть Documenting Narratives of Iraqi Diaspora - Artists Rand Abdul Jabbar & Basil Al-Rawi

MOE Talk - Artists Rand Abdul Jabbar & Basil Al-Rawi present & discuss their practice with MOE curator Brendan Fox. From personal narratives, western media misrepresentations to developing work through collaborations.

Rand Abdul Jabbar engages in a multi-disciplinary approach to creative output, oscillating across the threshold between design, architecture, and the visual arts. Throughout her process, she often borrows from and reconstructs the ephemera of place, history and memory, employing design, sculpture and installation as primary mediums of operation. Current research pursuits examine remnants of historic, cultural and personal narratives surrounding Iraq. Abdul Jabbar interrogates the fragility of Iraq’s tangible heritage, creating and composing forms that draw on artefacts, architecture and mythology. Simultaneously, she explores and contests with individual and collective memory to produce fragmentary reconstructions of historic events and past experiences.

Basil Al-Rawi is a visual artist working with photography, moving images, and simulation, creating works concerned with the landscapes of memory, identity, politics, and socio-economic traumas. Construction, staging and intervention are central to his process; photographs are staged, images subtly altered, and virtual environments created.