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Sonic Trauma, Gender, and Imperial Cheat Sheets: Hayv Kahraman’s “Audible Inaudible”

In her latest exhibition, Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman explores on linen, wood, and paper the trauma and violence of sound sounds that reverberate in warscapes in the context of the Iraq War.

Oct 26, 2016
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by Eman Elshaikh

In her latest exhibition “Audible Inaudible,” which recently appeared at the Third Line Gallery in Dubai (September 18-October 22), Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman explores the violence of sound in the context of the Iraq War. On linen, wood, and paper, Kahraman studies the traumatic sounds that reverberate in warscapes. Using a unique v…

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