Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation
Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisSeptember 8 - December 31, 2017Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation, highlights the evolution of the artist’s practice where the protagonist female body is pictured in various sequences and activities. Fueled by her experience as an Iraqi immigrant, Kahraman is concerned with the multitude rather than the self. Kahraman says of her protagonist, “She is one who dwells in the margins, surviving and navigating a life of spatial and temporal displacement. She is at once an agent of both personal and collective memorial transmission and an interrogator of future and present realities.”Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator.
This exhibition is generously supported by Barrett Barrera. The exhibition catalog is generously supported by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; and The Third Line, Dubai. The Artist Performance is generously supported by the Robert Lehman Foundation.
All images: Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, September 8-December 31, 2017. Photos: Dusty Kessler.