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    • Country Guitar Lessons
      2005–2010
      A collaboration with American veteran Jim White whom the artist taught to play country guitar over the course of five years
      SD video, 4:3, color, sound with English subtitles
      15:27 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • This Lemon Tastes of Apple
      2011
      Documenting an intervention undertaken by the artist on April 17th 2011 in Sulaimany during one of the last days of the civil protest, this work connects the detoxifying role of lemons, employed to combat the teargas protestors encountered, to the suffocating gas Saddam's forces poured into Kurdish settlements in 1988, the chemicals in which smelled of apple
      HD video, 16:9, color, sound (Kurdish language)
      13:26 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • What the Barbarians did not do, did the Barberini
      Installation view S.M.A.K., Ghent (2018)
      2012
      Sand, HD video projection
      40 × 400 × 400 cm

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

      Photo: Dirk Pauwels

    • It's Spring And The Weather Is Great So Let's Close All Object Matters
      Installation view: KOW, Berlin (2016)
      2012
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin

      Photo: Ladislav Zajac | KOW

    • For a Few Socks of Marbles
      Installation view: Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan
      2012
      Wool carpets, marble stone balls, metal tools, cotton short trousers, video
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • For a Few Socks of Marbles
      2012
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • My Father's Colour Period
      2013
      Video installation with 16 old TV sets and colored cellophane sheets
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy of the artist and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • The Bell Project
      2007-2015
      War metal waste, wood and 2 channel video installation, SD & HD video, 16:9, color, sound with English subtitles
      35:25 minutes and 25:29 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • Tonight This Film Will Be Broadcasted In Color
      2016
      Multichannel video installation with 15 vintage TV sets and cellophane sheets
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin

    • When We Were Exhaling Images
      Installation view documenta 14, Friedrichsplatz, Kassel
      2017
      In collaboration with the Diplom Degree Programme in Product Design, Prof. Jakob Gebert, Kunsthochschule Kassel

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

      Photo: Mathias Voelzke

    • deDutched
      2017
      Boulder, heating system

      Courtesy of De Appel, Amsterdam

      Commissioned by De Appel, Amsterdam

      Photo: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

    • PIN-DOWN
      2017
      Performance and video installation with Iraqi-Kurdish philosopher Bakir Ali
      Performed at El Otmani Gym, Amsterdam

      Production still from the Art21 television series "Art in the Twenty-First Century," Season 9, 2018

      © Art21, Inc. 2018

    • View From Above
      (video still)
      2017
      Single channel HD video, 16:9, color, sound (with English language)
      12:27 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)
      (video still)
      2017
      Single channel HD video, 16:9, color, sound (with English language)
      18 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • 0° Blind Spot, Where Beloved is...
      2017–2018
      Mixed media
      Approx. 225 × 120 × 50 cm

      Courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin

      Photo: Ladislav Zajac | KOW

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