Artist · Scholar · Cultural Worker
An Iraqi-born transnational artist, scholar, and cultural worker whose practice moves between the geographies of war, the architecture of memory, and the everyday work of survival.
An ongoing collaboration with sound artist Sholeh Asgary that departs from the Epic of Gilgamesh to excavate the relationship between racialized necropolitical destruction, forced displacement, and bodies in protest.
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A moving-image and performance work on ruin, futurity, and the sea as a threshold of crossing — screened at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
View project →A mother-to-daughter correspondence that charts a trilogy of forced displacements against pivotal moments in contemporary Iraqi and U.S. histories — bearing witness to the textures of memory carried through migration.
View project →A body of work on memoryscapes and the politics of place, including the 2024 piece نصب الشهيد / Martyrs' Monument.
View project →“Apocalypses are not in the future. Apocalypses are happening now.”