Artist Drawing Club: Sound Wounds w/ Hayv Kahraman

⚡️ $5 after 5 PM ⚡️ Artist Hayv Kahraman highlights the friction between memory and narrative through her personal history as an Iraqi émigré first to Europe and ultimately the United States. SOUND WOUNDS ▶️ New works recall a recurring sonic theme in the artist’s most taunting memories — the warning call of the siren. The violence of sound and the ways in which people resist it are at the heart of her current work. BRINGING SOUND TO LIFE ▶️ For “Sound Wounds”, Kahraman is collaborating with Aswat, the Bay Area’s premier Arab Music Ensemble, to interpret and perform a visual score throughout the night. This score is created by audience members arranging the different components of Hayv’s interactive painting. Ensemble members include Basma Edrees, Claire MacKenzie, Elise Youssoufian, Rana Mroue, and Stephanie Akers. ABOUT THE ARTIST ▶️ Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1981, and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Narrative and memory, dynamics of impermanence and ambivalence found in diasporic cultures are the essence of her visual language and the product of her experience as an Iraqi émigré. The body as object and subject have a central role in her painting practice. +++ hayvkahraman.com broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/hayv-kahraman-interview www.zawaya.org www.youtube.com/user/ASWATZawaya