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Hayv Kahraman Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) is an Iraqi artist and painter. Her works reflect the controversial issues of gender, honor killings and war, all issues that plague her home country of Iraq. Hayv currently lives and works in Phoenix, AZ, United States. Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1981, and moved to Sweden at the age of 11. She began oil painting at the age of 12 and later had several successful exhibitions in Sweden. Kahraman soon after moved to Italy and graduated from the Accademia di arte e design di Firenze in Florence with graphic design in 2005, on the same year she also won first place in a poster competition from Carnival of Ivrea in Ivrea , Italy. In 2006, she went on to study web design at the University of Umeå in Umeå , Sweden. Kahraman's artwork depict the effects of war, and how they affect women.
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In Arabic Waraq means "paper cards," and references a common pastime Kahraman encountered often in the day to day afternoons of many Iraqis, before she herself (and many of them) left their homeland. These immigrants' stories of assimilation, alienation and discovery play out in ten paintings and a large installation structured using the imagery of a newly invented suit of cards. Each of these large paintings on panel will then be reduced and reproduced in familiar images that feature Kahraman's reinventions of these cards, from the two through the ace. These new printed playing cards will subsequently be sewn with white thread into an 18 foot hanging installation, the artist's Project Al-Malwiya, which resembles an upside-down hanging version of a ninth century spiraling minaret (standing 52 meters tall, the same as the number of cards in a full deck). The Al-Malwiya tower is accepted as an Iraqi cultural landmark, one now partially destroyed by the cycles of war and internecine reprisals that have greatly impacted life in Iraq over the last 18 years. Kahraman's project also references so called "Archaeology awareness playing cards," 40,000 decks of which were printed and sent to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. These decks were designed to make troops aware of the damage they can cause to sites and to discourage the illegal trade in artifacts.
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S unet: Djivan Gasparyan - Doudouk Text and pictures: Internet Arangement: Sanda Foişoreanu http://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda