https://rijinsahakian.com/header-two 2024-07-11T20:35:34+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/menu 2024-07-11T02:38:03+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/header-mobile 2024-07-11T16:42:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/about 2025-10-17T19:58:37+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1863355954829560819974832182964/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-8.04.43PM.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1915459973391426667222560724660/563794_10200181501796225_1134471994_n.jpeg https://rijinsahakian.com/home-set 2024-07-10T04:52:06+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/header-home 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com 2024-07-11T17:43:55+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H852261350022669861696600615516/horizontal.svg Images/Video + Text, <a style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">SIMULATION</a>, Open Society Fellowship (Art, Land and Public Memory) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U1834418211688837248914683123380/Sada-Regroup-Installaion-Still.jpeg Artist/Director, <a href="sada-regroup" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">SADA [REGROUP]</a>, Documenta Fifteen https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1834643841323427628440285927092/sada-border-to-baghdad-book-.jpg <a href="sada" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">Director, </a><a href="sada" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">SADA (2011-2015)</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1834643841341874372513995478708/City-Limits_Catalog_Image-2.jpeg <a href="https://gallery.qatar.vcu.edu/city-limits/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Curator, SAJJAD ABBAS and LAITH K. DAER: CITY LIMITS, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Gallery</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1834643841268087396219157272244/Berlin-Biennale-Raed-Mutar-Painting-Image-1.jpg <a href="twelfth-berlin-biennale" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">Advisor, Talk, Writer, Withdrawal, 12th Berlin Biennale</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1834767332295312570011487622836/Sahakian_Anthem_3.png <a href="sada-regroup" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">Video, ANTHEM, part of</a><a href="sada-regroup" rel="history"> Sada [regroup]</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1834782090926503390591320381108/ShangriLa_Installation_1.jpg <a href="shangri-la" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">Curator, SHANGRI LA: IMAGINED CITIES, City of Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1834782090889609902443901277876/IraqReframe_Image3.jpeg <a href="iraq-reframe" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">Curator, IRAQ: REFRAME,</a> Silicon Valley https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1834782090778929438001643968180/Border-To-Baghdad_Image-4.png <a href="https://bordertobaghdad.com/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">BORDER TO BAGHDAD,</a> El Paso/Baghdad https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1835686816267305190641100969652/22nd-videobrasil-image.jpeg <a href="https://bienalsescvideobrasil.org.br/artistas/sada-regroup/" target="_blank">Selected Work, 22nd Biennial Videobrasil: Memory is an Editing Station, São Paulo</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1835702598674345358027338864308/Vienna-Talk-Image.jpg <a href="https://bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at/index.php/2023/04/30/656/" target="_blank">Seminar, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1835719745255003264382337865396/Zurich-Arts-Image.jpg <a href="https://www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltung/51055" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Seminar + Screening, Zurich University of the Arts</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1835728259146816300215081162420/Georgetown-Iraq-2023-image.jpg <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/event/iraq-2023-twenty-years-on/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Talk, Twenty Years After the Invasion of Iraq, Georgetown University</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N1839172640107093271299561412276/Site-Image-_2012Baghdad_Skyline.jpg Images/Video + Text, <a style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">SIMULATION</a>, Open Society Fellowship (Art, Land and Public Memory) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1842057506010681762554023564980/eflux-evening-with-rijin-image.jpg <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/events/518888/rijin-sahakian-twenty-years-after-the-invasion-of-iraq-sada-in-context/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Discussion and Screening, e-flux Screenng Room, NYC</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1842073720661829065102474925748/documenta-talk-image.jpg <a href="https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/calendar/screening-and-qa-with-members-from-sada/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Screening/ Discussion, Documenta Fifteen, Kassel</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1845385732121617953766303389364/worldbuilding-darat-image-2.jpg <a href="https://daratalfunun.org/?event=worldbuilding-in-the-wake" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Lecture, World-building in the Wake, Darat al Funun, Amman</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1845417083303955170908461913780/moma-panel-image-2.jpg Contributor, <a href="embedded-horizons" rel="history"></a><a href="embedded-horizons" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">Theater of Operations</a> at <a href="embedded-horizons" rel="history" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);">MoMA PS1, NYC</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1845417083193274706466204604084/idols-vera-list-image.jpg <a href="https://event.newschool.edu/theidolsofisisfromassyriatothe" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Panelist, Vera List Center/ Cabinet Magazine, NYC</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1845420664149021271259202508468/temporary-gallery-talk-1.jpg <a href="https://www.temporarygallery.org/en/vortrag-und-curatorial-workshop-rijin-sahakian%e2%80%a8-do-10-oktober-1900-uhr-2/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Curatorial Workshop, Rheim Alkadhi: Majnoon Field, Temporary Gallery, Cologne</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1845423400815738326439732500148/white-west-conference-image-.jpg <a href="https://www.lacolonie.paris/agenda/2019/juin/the-white-west-ii/#programme" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Lecture, The Afterlife of Fascism, La Colonie, Paris</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1845438269371077082254783338164/eflux-still-riding-image-1.jpg <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/events/96120/e-flux-lectures-rijin-sahakian-still-riding-our-desert-storm-s/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Lecture + Media, STILL RIDING, Our Desert Storm(s), e-flux lecture program, NYC</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1845439928508132559839274784436/home-works-image-.jpg <a href="https://archive.ashkalalwan.org/resource/zrwmMh1FCicR8loHl_wmLW5sHTlT-vV1p6YDIb3dL4w=" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Lecture + Media, Cultural Harvesting, Home Works 7, Beirut</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1845442645473726944298003650228/kalw-image-1.jpg <a style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Interview, Where is Iraq Today, 12 Years After the U.S. Invasion?</a>, KALW Public Media https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1845449249795486957865382762164/new-museum-talk-image-1.png <a href="https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/1879" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Lecture, Curating the Region: Reflections From Here and Elsewhere, The New Museum, NYC</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1845455359209550217879201568436/college-art-talk-image-.jpg <a href="https://www.collegeart.org/pdf/conference/2013ConferenceSessions.pdf" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Talk, Art and ‘The War on Terror,’ Ten Years On, College Arts Association, NYC</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1845474285919457981279641065140/teaching-art-of-islamic-world-image-2.jpg <a href="https://tickets.famsf.org/events/283/detail/59f74c91969c6d01cd11926c" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Panelist, Teaching Art of the Middle East and the Islamic World, de Young Museum,</a> San Francisco https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1845474285956351469427060168372/nuqat-image-.jpg <a href="https://www.nuqat.me/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Speaker, 2013 Nuqat Conference on Art and Design, Kuwait City </a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1845474285864117749058512410292/ten-years-on-london-2013-image-1.jpg <a href="https://www.ibraaz.org/news/65" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Lecture, 10 Years On: Art and Everyday Life in Iraq and Iran, Global Futures Forum, London</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1845474285808777516837383755444/brown-symposium-iamge-1.jpg <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/108728/art-and-war-in-iraq-symposium/" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Panelist, Art and War in Iraq Symposium, Brown University</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1845845434668475434490088707764/surviving-long-wars-image.jpg <a href="https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/summit-day-3/sada" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Sada [regroup} at the Chicago Culture Center and Hyde Park Art Center, Suriving the Long Wars </a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1845850027096093048925220820660/mutannabi-center-for-the-book-image-.jpg Anniversary <a href="https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=983" target="_blank">Reading:</a><a href="https://sfcb.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=983" target="_blank">Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here</a>, San Francisco Center for the Book https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1845892469567772024672383981236/darat-al-funun-image-3.jpg <a href="https://daratalfunun.org/?event=distance-teaching" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Lecture, Distance Learning @the Lab, Darat al Funun, Amman</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1845899171989317022227158587060/march-meeting-image-2.jpg <a href="https://www.sharjahart.org/march-meeting-2011/programme/building-new-geographies-of-practice" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);" target="_blank">Talk, Building New Geographies of Practice, Sharjah Art Foundation </a> 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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U1850193790758919471930594875060/Tea_Khairiyya.jpg Photo, Tea by Kerosene, Iraq, 2011 https://rijinsahakian.com/sada-regroup 2024-07-11T05:06:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1851642661679735674412468590260/Sada-Regroup-Installation-Still.jpeg Installation view, Sarah Munaf, Journey Inside the City, part of SADA [regroup], Fridericianum, documenta fifteen https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1851647781831807749530453333684/d15_Fridericianum_Sada_regroup_Kassel_2022_Foto_Nicoals_Wefers_001.jpg Installation view, Ali Eyal, The Blue Ink Pocket, part of SADA [regroup], Fridericianum, documenta fifteen https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1851652177543346561926927013556/Sada-Regroup-Bassim-Al-Shaker-Barbershop-Still-4-.png Video Still, Bassim Al Shaker, Barbershop, part of SADA [regroup] https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1851652177414219353410960152244/SadaRegroup_Rijin-Sahakian_Anthem_FilmStill-10.png Video Still, Rijin Sahakian, Anthem, part of SADA [regroup] https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1851654991280560357065963656884/Sajjad-Abbas-Water-of-Life-Still-3.png Video Still, Sajjad Abbas, Water of Life, part of SADA [regroup] https://rijinsahakian.com/twelfth-berlin-biennale 2024-07-11T04:00:59+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1834643841268087396219157272244/Berlin-Biennale-Raed-Mutar-Painting-Image-1.jpg Raed Mutar, UNTITLED, 2012, oil on canvas, 150 × 120 cm, courtesy Rijin Sahakian © Raed Mutar, photo: Eric Tschernow https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1851654432510235620329935656628/Film-Still-_Abbas.png Sajjad Abbas, I CAN SEE YOU, 2013, video, color, sound, 5′03′′, b/w image in public space, video still © Sajjad Abbas https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1851794589027033258132158863028/Screenshot-2024-07-02-at-1.59.02PM.png Layth Kareem, THE CITY LIMITS, 2014, video, color and b/w, sound, 10′43′′, video still © Layth Kareem https://rijinsahakian.com/sada 2024-07-11T04:46:53+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1834643841323427628440285927092/sada-border-to-baghdad-book-.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1852036473711140461630131066548/Screen-shot-2013-08-29-at-8.24.15-PM.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1852036473748033949777550169780/Sada-Workshop-Sulaymaniyah-Still-12.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1852036473674246973482711963316/beirut-intensive-DancePerf-copy.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1852037081771165363318080984756/workshpwebimage_1-copy.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1852037081789612107391790536372/_MG_1199.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1853760093445009778188430399156/IMG_3432.jpeg https://rijinsahakian.com/shangri-la 2024-07-11T04:01:00+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1834782090926503390591320381108/ShangriLa_Installation_1.jpg Shangri La: Imagined Cities, installation view, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2014 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1853180358543207223844694972084/IMG_0430.jpg Installation view, Miriam Ghani, The Trespassers, 2011. Video stills. Single channel video, 95:00 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1853276650510378499556711388852/cover-shangri-la-image.jpg Catalogue cover, Cumea Halim, Untitled, Beirut (2013), 2014 Inkjet print, 30" × 38" Courtesy of the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1853364163801172305409080612532/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.55.51AM.png Table of Contents, Shangri La: Imagined Cities Catalogue https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1853374046902564212333292607156/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.54.42AM.jpeg Taysir Batniji, Selection from To My Brother, 2012. Hand carvings from photographs on paper, 17” x 13.” Courtesty of the Abraaj Group Art Prize. Jean-Louis Losi, Paris https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1853374046994797932701840365236/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.54.27AM.jpeg Image left, Charles Gaines, Notes on Social Justice: Freedom’s Jubilee! (1865), 2014. Ink on Strathmore paper, 48” x 35” Courtesy of the artist Image right, Charles Gaines, Notes on Social Justice: Hurrah For Grover Cleveland, (1892), 2013. Ink on Paper, 76” x 46” Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1853521337476271428420088682164/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.54.57AM-2.jpeg Top Left, Jananne Al-Ani, Aerial I, 2011. Production still from the film Shadow Sites II. Archival chromogenic C-Type Print, 69” x 87” Photography by Adrian Warren. Courtesy of the artist Bottom Left, Aerial IV, 2011. Production still from the film Shadow Sites II. Archival pigment print, 18” x 22” Photography by Adrian Warren. Courtesy of the artist Top Right, Jananne Al-Ani, Aeiral III, 2011. Production still from teh film Shadow Sites II. Archival pigment print, 18” x 22”. Photography by Adrian Warren. Courtesy of the artist Bottom Right, Jananne Al-Ani, Aerial VI, 2011. Production still from the film, Shadow Sites II. Archival pigment print, 18” x 22” Photography by Adrian Warren. Courtesy of the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1853527150082222542447221986996/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.55.10AM-2.jpeg Image right, Haig Aivazian, How Great You Are O Son of the Desert!, 2009-ongoing. Video stills, Video. Color, stereo sound, 60:00. Courtesy of the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1853531368760358479453128808116/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.53.48AM-2.jpeg Adrian Paci, The Column, 2013. Production shot. HD video projection. Color, sound, 25:40. Photography by Roberto Marossi. Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milan https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1853554396661089174403340883636/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-10.54.10AM-2.jpeg Gelare Khoshgozaran, rial & tERROR, 2011. Video stills, Video. Color, stereo sound, 16:27. Courtesy of the artist https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1854777957039093984387435648692/Screenshot-2024-07-04-at-10.54.00AM.png Image left, Cumea Halim, Untitled, Beirut (2010), 2014 Inkjet print, 30" × 38" Courtesy of the artist Image right, Cumea Halim, Untitled, Beirut (2012), 2014 Inkjet print, 38" × 30" Courtesy of the artist https://rijinsahakian.com/iraq-reframe 2024-07-11T04:01:00+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1853596860401864067137617057460/IraqReframe_MutannabiStreetStartsHere_Image-7.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1853596860383417323063907505844/IraqReframe_Image3.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1853597469458013148805882762932/IraqReframe_AdelAbidin_AbidinTravels_Installation_1.png Adel Abidin, Abidin Travels, installed at Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco. Photo: Jakub Mosur https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1853619998595677578797238245044/Screenshot-2024-07-03-at-5.09.43PM.png Image from Michael Rakowitz, Enemy Kitchen prgram at the Montalvo Art Center with Saratoga Public High School. December 21, 2007, Photo, Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1853644018691431766363103090356/IraqReframe_Image2.jpeg detail, Untitled composition, Shakir Hassan al Said, 1980. Mixed media on wood, 31 1/2 x 35 1/2. Private collection. Moments from 20th Century Iraqi Art, Iraq: Reframe https://rijinsahakian.com/page-nav 2024-07-11T02:38:03+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/blog-pages 2025-02-02T18:40:46+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/hello-goodbye 2024-11-04T17:31:04+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1834456843136977572563320624820/LAP-Hello-Goodbye-Cover.jpg https://rijinsahakian.com/archival-love-letter 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1834456843136977572563320624820/LAP-Hello-Goodbye-Cover.jpg Ali Eyal, 6x9 doesn’t fit everything, 2021. Created for the exhibition Unruly Archives. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1863191855029251317533317060276/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-5.36.31PM.png Ali Eyal, 6x9 doesn’t fit everything, 2021. Created for the exhibition Unruly Archives. https://rijinsahakian.com/anything-you-can- 2024-07-11T20:35:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1834452095627582530451988076212/White-West-Cover.jpg https://rijinsahakian.com/the-book-of-dreams 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1834452095627582530451988076212/White-West-Cover.jpg photo, Rijin Sahakian, 2012 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1839204917611130893840563885748/fire-.jpg photo, Rijin Sahakian, 2012 https://rijinsahakian.com/becoming-known 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1850389907816601205018758272692/Image-3-Erbil-Camp.jpg Satellite dishes rise from makeshift homes in the Baharka Internally Displaced People (IDP) Camp, Erbil, Iraq. Photograph by Tamar Sahakian, May 2019 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1850396372072233466909511964340/becoming-known-bartalle-garden-image-2.jpg Scenes from Bartella on the outskirts of Mosul: a well-tended garden amidst the rubble and an intact home surrounded by an overflow of plant growth. Photograph by Tamar Sahakian, May 2019 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1850396372035339978762092861108/becoming-known-bartalla-image-1-rose-garden.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1850396372090680210983221515956/becoming-known-nineveh-plain-image-1.jpg The plains of Northern Iraq after a rainstorm. Photograph by Tamar Sahakian, May 2019 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1856786960964078391895597045428/nimurd-3.jpg The plains of Northern Iraq after a rainstorm. Photograph by Tamar Sahakian, May 2019 https://rijinsahakian.com/data 2024-07-11T04:01:01+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1850415988284541217425571763892/SiteBackground2_Data.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N1856778652661228057555806508724/camera-austria-cover-image.jpg https://rijinsahakian.com/embedded-horizons 2024-09-25T04:06:29+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg Fig. 1 — Painting from Ali Eyal’s ongoing series Behind the Sun, 2019 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1850686003017428975051218409140/Sajjad-Abbas-I-Can-See-You-Image-1.JPG Fig. 3— Sajjad Abbas, I Can See You, 2014 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1850686002998982230977508857524/Behind-the-Sun-Fig.2-Eyal.JPG Fig. 2 — Painting from Ali Eyal’s ongoing series Behind the Sun, 2019 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1850686002980535486903799305908/Behind-the-Sun-Fig.-1-Eyal.JPG Fig. 1 — Painting from Ali Eyal’s ongoing series Behind the Sun, 2019 https://rijinsahakian.com/extraction-rebellion 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B1839118807674839239516043400884/extraction-rebellion-image.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg https://rijinsahakian.com/exhibitions,-ethics,-and-the-cultural-afterlives-of-violene 2025-12-21T01:53:34+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg University of Baghdad College of Art, Exterior, 2012, photograph (Rijin Sahakian) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2706392659510412484830577350324/Baghdad-College-of-Art-2012.jpg University of Baghdad College of Art, Exterior, 2012, photograph (Rijin Sahakian) https://rijinsahakian.com/what-we-are-fighting-for 2024-07-11T20:35:34+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg Oil-well fires burn near the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, 2016. Photo: Planet Labs. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1863355613177413830800226703028/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-8.04.36PM.png Iraqi antiaircraft fire lights up the skies over Baghdad as US warplanes bomb the Iraqi capital in the early hours of January 18, 1991. The US campaign drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait in a little over a month. Photo: Dominique Mollard/AP. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1863355613158967086726517151412/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-8.04.43PM.png The author’s snapshot of the infamous US army occupation slogan. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1863355613195860574873936254644/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-8.04.28PM.png Oil-well fires burn near the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, 2016. Photo: Planet Labs. https://rijinsahakian.com/closing-of-sada 2024-07-11T21:11:42+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg rooftop, Baghdad, 2013 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1864860978801482270975526753972/Simulation_Image5_Baghdad_RijinSahakian2011.jpg rooftop, Baghdad, 2013 https://rijinsahakian.com/it-is-what-it-is 2024-07-11T20:35:34+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg Installation view, It Is What It Is, Jeremey Deller https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1863261053839126422331555370676/Deller_Cover.jpg Installation view, It Is What It Is, Jeremey Deller https://rijinsahakian.com/chronicling-of-mountains 2024-07-11T21:11:42+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg Walid Siti, Mountains series, 2011. Acrylic and graphite on paper. 20 x 30 cm https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1863402104192908151730102130356/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-8.46.59PM.png Walid Siti, Mountains series, 2011. Acrylic and graphite on paper. 20 x 30 cm https://rijinsahakian.com/response-platform-four 2024-07-11T20:35:34+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1863394662186053006938274584244/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-8.40.12PM.png https://rijinsahakian.com/reply-to-nato-thompson-the-insurgents 2024-07-11T20:35:34+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg https://rijinsahakian.com/a-coalition-of-the-willing 2024-07-11T21:30:36+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1850684444857850556952812508852/moma-ps1-cover.jpg The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1863294701991588953713371567796/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-7.09.36PM.png The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) https://rijinsahakian.com/untitled-al-mutanabbi 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1839159449320021507515649152692/mutannabi-cover-image.jpg https://rijinsahakian.com/rheim-alkadhi-captive-lover 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1856711219592142432309558433460/Society_Alkadhi.jpg “Society of Estranged Lovers”, image file with text, see picturesclerk.com/2009/12/06/society-of-estranged-lovers/ Composed from material sourced online, among them: 1) no caption [Adhamiya wall], 2008 and 2) caption: “Immigrants, carrying no travel documents, who said they were from Iraq and had sailed from Lebanon, sit on the beach of Kato Zakros on the Greek island of Crete on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007”.... https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1856711219573695688235848881844/captive-04-2.jpg Captive Lover Series (no.4 of 5), scanned paper collage, 2007. Retrieved with text from “Imprint” page of picturesclerk.com. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1856777923110946686416749647540/078fff05-8135-46aa-9f8b-ecdebdc0991d.jpg “Society of Estranged Lovers”, image file with text, see picturesclerk.com/2009/12/06/society-of-estranged-lovers/ Composed from material sourced online, among them: 1) no caption [Adhamiya wall], 2008 and 2) caption: “Immigrants, carrying no travel documents, who said they were from Iraq and had sailed from Lebanon, sit on the beach of Kato Zakros on the Greek island of Crete on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007”.... https://rijinsahakian.com/to-accelerate-time 2024-07-11T20:35:33+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1856777923110946686416749647540/078fff05-8135-46aa-9f8b-ecdebdc0991d.jpg Film Stills from Sajjad Abbas, Ali Eyal, Sarah Munaf, Rijin Sahakian, and Bassim Al Shaker, Sada [regroup], 2022, 54 min https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1862750841100175840840788530868/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.50.41AM.png Film Stills from Sajjad Abbas, Ali Eyal, Sarah Munaf, Rijin Sahakian, and Bassim Al Shaker, Sada [regroup], 2022, 54 min https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1862752906619003262246702077620/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.51.44AM.png Film Still from Bassim Al Shaker, Barbershop, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1862752906674343494467830732468/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.51.30AM.png Film Still from Sarah Munaf, Journey Inside the City, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1862752906637450006320411629236/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.51.15AM.png Film still from Ali Eyal, The Blue Ink Pocket, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1862752906655896750394121180852/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-10.51.00AM.png Film still from Sajjad Abbas, Water of Life, 2022 https://rijinsahakian.com/the-scope-of-the-frontier 2024-07-11T21:14:34+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1856777923110946686416749647540/078fff05-8135-46aa-9f8b-ecdebdc0991d.jpg Still from video, The Troubled Bear and the Palace, 2019 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1863200319668257676561557542580/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-5.44.20PM.png Still from video, The Troubled Bear and the Palace, 2019 https://rijinsahakian.com/beyond-repair- 2025-03-04T19:33:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1834643841268087396219157272244/Berlin-Biennale-Raed-Mutar-Painting-Image-1.jpg Raed Mutar, Untitled, 2012, oil on canvas, 150 × 120 cm, courtesy Rijin Sahakian/Raed Mutar, photo: Eric Tschernow https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1856777923110946686416749647540/078fff05-8135-46aa-9f8b-ecdebdc0991d.jpg Sajjad Abbas, I Can See You, 2013, video, color, sound 5 minutes 3 seconds, video still https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1862907928573639907407061898932/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-1.20.28PM.png Sajjad Abbas, I Can See You, 2013, video, color, sound 5 minutes 3 seconds, video still https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B1862911728436898394911308830388/Screenshot-2024-07-09-at-1.23.51PM.png Layth Kareem, The City Limits, 2014, video, color and b/w, sound, 10′43′′, video still https://rijinsahakian.com/no-before-no-after 2025-02-02T19:05:05+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1856777923110946686416749647540/078fff05-8135-46aa-9f8b-ecdebdc0991d.jpg Installation view Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2024: Rawan Almukhtar, The Chosen Arm, 2021, Kunsthalle Wien 2025, Courtesy Rawan Almukhtar and Galerie MEYER*KAINER, Vienna, photo: kunst-dokumentation.com https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2194295937192303376049088288436/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-10.29.46AM.png Rawan Almukhtar, PASSING, from the series HIJRA — Deframing Postmigration, 2023, Courtesy Rawan Almukhtar and Galerie MEYER*KAINER, Vienna https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2194298008761662853631734765236/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-10.31.55AM.png Installation view Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2024: Rawan Almukhtar, The Chosen Arm, 2021, Kunsthalle Wien 2025, Courtesy Rawan Almukhtar and Galerie MEYER*KAINER, Vienna, photo: kunst-dokumentation.com https://rijinsahakian.com/work 2025-02-02T18:40:46+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H852261350022669861696600615516/horizontal.svg https://rijinsahakian.com/blog 2025-02-02T18:40:46+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T852814979848575809304980695644/horizontal-dark-1.svg https://rijinsahakian.com/mobile-nav 2025-02-02T18:40:46+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/mobile-contact-icons 2025-02-02T18:40:46+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/bottom-nav-mobile 2025-02-02T18:40:46+00:00 always 0.5 https://rijinsahakian.com/bottom-nav 2025-02-02T18:40:46+00:00 always 0.5