An exhibition of new work by the noted Iraqi artist. Obaidi’s art looks beyond simplistic politics and perceptions of identity, says the gallery, “instead seeking to uncover and understand trauma from a historical, structural and geographical lens … As with much of Obaidi’s oeuvre, this latest body of work is made up of a multitude of layers which lie behind the external, visible yet abstract structures, shapes and colour, revealing a visual inquiry which goes far beyond the difficult topics which he seeks to tackle – namely colonisation and genocide – and simultaneously forces him to look within and explore his own personal sense of displacement”.
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