mohammed al shammarey
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My Class of 1971In the last decade or so mourning has become a central theme in Iraqi culture, particularly in the diaspora. The catastrophic destruction of Iraqi lives by dictatorship, war, and military occupation and the disintegration of national identity make ‘work of mourning’ more urgent. The past and its ghosts haunt makers of culture and demand to be addressed. “My Class of 1971” captures the extent of the damage to life and memory in the Iraqi context. The artist’s third grade class photograph is the frame(work) within which death will compete with life and claim its companions one by one. It is also the site where both individual and collective memory are prematurely severed and fragmented. Where one’s peers disappear and become ghosts that will keep
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Mohammed Al Shammarey is a self-taught Iraqi artist born in 1962. He is a member of the UNESCO International Association for Plastic Arts (AIAP) , a member of The Iraqi Artist Association, and the Iraqi Society of Plastic Artists. His work has been exhibited throughout the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe, including the Frankfurt Inter-national Book Fair- 2004 and 2005, and Imagining the Book International Biennial at the Alexandria Library in Egypt- 2005. In 2004 he recieved the prize of Arab Pioneers from the Arab Pioneers Festival under the patronage of the Arab League. In February 2015, he participated in ‘VIP’, a collective exhibition at EOA Projects in London, which included artists Damien Hirst, Chuck Close and Jeff Koons. His body of work comprises video art, photography, book art, painting, and sculpture. He has held many solo exhibitions including shows held at his atelier in Baghdad (in 1988 -1999); French Cultural Centre- Baghdad ; Orfali Gallery, Amman, 2002; Dar Al-Anda Gallery, Amman, 2004; Huntingdon-Pennsylvania, Al Mashreq -Am-man and FA Gallery- Kuwait all exhibited Rain Song in 2010, Word, Object and Motion (with Simeen Farhat) exhibited in Anya Tish Gallery- Houston-Texas in 2010; Juniata College -Museum of Art exhibited his Rain Song Collection in 2012, He has also participated in group exhibitions such as Word into Art at The British Museum, London- 2006; Dafatir: Contem-porary Iraqi Book Art- University of North Texas; Denton-Texas Travelling Exhibition, 2005–2008; Iraqi Artists in Exile joint exhibition at Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston-Texas, 2008; Modernism and Iraq, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2009. ; An Exhibition of Works by Mohammed Al Sham-marey ARTSPACE Dubai, 2013 and Collective Reaction: FotoFest 2014 at Station museum of Contemprary Art, Houston, Texas.Since 2008, he has lived and worked in Houston, Texas where he currently resides.
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