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), founded by Êvar in 2019, is an experimental community archive based at Somerset House Studio’s dedicated to WANA thought, art, and literature. In carefully growing the library and the feminist practice that guides the WANAWAL approach, WANAWAL has been able to reach a place of experimentation and adaptation to nurture ideas around collective memory as a liberation practice.}

Both Êvar and the WANAWAL are residents at Somerset House Studios, and welcome studio visits.

^{Êvar Huseynî is a Kurdish artist and archivist whose experimental work moves between books, 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 is grounded in the quiet gestures of collecting, annotating, and sharing knowledge, 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.}

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

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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