Êvar Huseynî
Artist + Archivist
Êvar Huseynî is a Kurdish artist-archivist whose experimental work moves between book-making, film, photography and mixed media installations. Her work explores how archives shape Kurdish identity formation, solidarity building, liberation tactics, and how communities resist erasure through their own forms of remembering. Êvar’s practice observes the quiet gestures of knowledge-production, often with attention to the intimacies that formal archives overlook. She asks what role archives might play in shaping freedom - specifically that of occupied people and lands.
Both Êvar and the WANAWAL are residents at Somerset House Studios, and welcome studio visits.
You can reach Êvar on: evarhussayni@gmail.com
Êvar Huseynî 2027 Copyright © All rights reserved.
Artist + Archivist
Êvar Huseynî is a Kurdish artist-archivist whose experimental work moves between book-making, film, photography and mixed media installations. Her work explores how archives shape Kurdish identity formation, solidarity building, liberation tactics, and how communities resist erasure through their own forms of remembering. Êvar’s practice observes the quiet gestures of knowledge-production, often with attention to the intimacies that formal archives overlook. She asks what role archives might play in shaping freedom - specifically that of occupied people and lands.
Both Êvar and the WANAWAL are residents at Somerset House Studios, and welcome studio visits.
Êvar Huseynî 2027 Copyright © All rights reserved.
WANAWAL
The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL) is a library and experimental archive, curated bookshop, and research studio founded in 2018. Rooted in a commitment to collective memory as a liberatory practice, WANAWAL creates dialogue between Kurdish feminist thought and broader West Asian and North African histories, recognising these relationships as essential to resisting erasure, borders, and the fragmentation of indigenous, minoritised, and stateless narratives across the region.
For any queries regarding WANAWAL, please contact wanawalarchives@gmail.com
-WRITTEN WORK-
Completed projects:
‘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
Completed projects:
‘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