Title: Hayv Kahraman /
Authors: Kahraman, Hayv,; McGrew, Rebecca,; Antoon, Sinan,; Tlostanova, M. V.; Kahraman, Hayv,; Varella, Kimberly,; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.).
Date: 2018
Publisher: Pomona College Museum of Art,
Physical description: 91 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: "Kahraman's paintings take on themes of violence and involuntary migration as she processes her childhood in the war-torn country of Iraq and her adolescence in Sweden as a refugee. While Kahraman's work is intertwined with the histories of the Iran-Iraq and Gulf Wars, it is also invested in the idea of feminine collectivity, identity, belonging, and diasporic cultural memory. For Kahraman, the figure she paints represents herself as a colonized woman. Through the body of this woman, the repetitive nature of her work, and the act of shredding and mending, Kahraman grapples with a history of displacement, loss, memory, and trauma."-- Publisher's description.
Contents: Hayv Kahraman: weaving as mending / Rebecca McGrew -- Re-weaving one's world anew: Hayv Kahraman and the art of re-existence / Madina Tlostanova -- Dismemberment / Sinan Antoon -- Birth certificate / Sinan Antoon -- Gendering memories of Iraq: a collective performance / Hayv Kahraman.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Project Series 52: Hayv Kahraman,' presented at the Pomona College Museum of Art, September 4-December 22, 2018."-- Colophon.
Subject headings (LCSH): Exhibition catalogs.; Kahraman, Hayv, 1981---Exhibitions.; Painting, Iraqi--21st century--Exhibitions.; Weaving in art--Exhibitions.; Women artists--Iraq--Exhibitions.; Women in art--Exhibitions.