Category Archives: Iraqi contemporary art

  1. Rashad Selim Iraqi artist in London

    Baghdad Pavement 2006 “I have a sense of devastation within me. The works I have deal with devastation. ” Rashad Selim “Art has to do with debris, breaking up, assymetry, loss of grammar. “ The layers of this collage include both old manuscripts which he has torn up and debris. Rashad is echoing the break […]

  2. Word into Art Artists of the Modern Middle East

    Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East at the British Museum explores the complexity of contemporary Middle Eastern culture from the perspective of the use of calligraphy and text.