Hayv Kahraman’s multifaceted work—painting, performance and sculpture— primarily deals with the body politics of migrant consciousness. Her paintings take on themes of memory, 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.

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