av û nan hevpar e di nav me de

Êvar Huseynî
Artist + Archivist

The WANAWAL

^{The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL) is an archive and library that exists as a digital and physical collection, with experimental and caring archival and research methods that lend themselves towards adaptation to nurture ideas around collective memory as a liberation practice.}

^{Êvar’s personal multi-disciplinary practice focuses on Kurdish genealogies, colonial violence in archives and their relationship with the trajectory of Kurdish feminisms and Kurdish identity. In her analysis of archives, she investigates the psychological impact of the archived material and its relationship with cause and effect. She is particularly interested in how collective memory shapes understandings of freedom, specifically for those of occupied identities and lands. Through broadening the range of methodologies she employs in her work, Êvar’s endeavour is to assess the implications of archival structures for Kurdish identity formation.

Êvar is currently a resident at Somerset House Studio’s and is open to studio visits.}

BOOKS:
Cries of Soil
Angel / Amûdê
Cries of Inanna
Tentene
K-land

Art Work:
‘don’t worry i won’t forget you’

Tama xwînê ji ava hinaran te / The Fruit of the Dead Tastes of Blood

my mum, my aunt

“av û nan hevpar e di nav me de, tu xwişka min î û ez xwişka te me” (water and bread split between us - you are my sister and i am your sister)

Sê xaltî li ber avê

Kurdish Girls Swimming

TEXTS