Embedded Acrylic and Oil on mattress (installation view)

Embedded Acrylic and Oil on mattress

This piece of work is made from the actual mattress I slept on when i first arrived in the uk. I am a kurdish refugee and I am interested in my family history and the history of the kurdish people. The collection of inverted worldwide flags are superimposed over the kurdish flag. The piece brings together my personal journey and the national situation. The countries represented have at some time been complicit in the oppression of the Kurds. The black image of the barbed wire shows the contours of the kurdish map.