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Tag: Hayv Kahraman

"Expatriation and exile fracture forever any sense of belonging and any hope of ever being complete," wrote curator Octavio Zaya in his statement for Hayv Kahraman's solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, "How Iraqi Are You?" Kahraman's autobiographical paintings on linen ruminate on her early childhood in Iraq, her upbringing as a refugee in Sweden, and her struggle of navigating two disparate cultural identities.

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