Rushdi Anwar: Stories told through an artist's eyes

Mayada Kordy Khalil, SBS Language, October 4, 2019

'SBS Kurdish speaks to artist Rushdi Anwar who is based between Melbourne and Thailand at the moment about his participation in the exhibition which is taking place from 3rd – 26 October in London. Mr Anwar told SBS Kurdish he will be participating by preparing a video in which he utilises a printed photograph, on paper, of Saddam Hussein, a fragmented image of this Middle Eastern dictator is repetitively torn and pieced back together, until the image is no more – representative of this political landscape and the self-interest of its rulers.

 

“I utilised a printed photograph, on paper, of Saddam Hussein. In this work a fragmented image of this Middle Eastern dictator is repetitively torn and pieced back together, until the image is no more – representative of this political landscape and the self-interest of its rulers.”'