Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad in 1981 and currently lives and works in the US. She is a graduate of the Academia di Arte e Design di Firenze in Florence, Italy.
I discovered Hayv’s work just yesterday through tumblr and got in touch with her. She kindly agreed to share her work on the blog. It turns out that she knows Ala Ebtekar, who I featured in my last post!
The first three works in this post are “paintings of the traditional fashion in the United Arab Emirates.” I love them.
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Hayv Kahraman, Untitled, 2006, sumi ink and acrylic on paper
Hayv Kahraman, Untitled, 2006, sumi ink and acrylic on paper
Hayv Kahraman, Untitled, 2006, sumi ink and acrylic on paper
Hayv Kahraman, from the series Domesticated Marionettes, 2009, oil on linen
Hayv Kahraman, from the series Domesticated Marionettes, 2009, oil on linen
Hayv Kahraman, honor killings, 2006, ink on paper
Hayv Kahraman, in line, 2007, ink on paper
“Based on the suicides committed by self-immolation currently occurring in northern Iraq.”
Hayv Kahraman, mevlevi sema, 2008, sumi ink, acrylic on paper
“I am a bird of the heavenly garden
I belong not to the earthly sphere,
They have made for two or three days
A cage of my body.”
–Rumi
Hayv Kahraman, Carrying on Shoulder, 1 and 2, 2008, oil on linen
Hayv Kahraman, Melancholic Aristocracy, 2008
