This work was part of a private solo exhibition curated and organized by Niga Salam, it was called INSIDE/OUTSIDE – UoS – Sulaymaniyah, Iraq – 2019
A phrase connected with well begin and what you eat, a simple fact that explains what you eat will work directly with how you are, and how one acts shall suffer the consequences. We live in a world of pollution, pollution is waste at is best and at its worse forms are the ones that we don’t get to see. the one I have presented to you in the plates, that is not just garbage in the plates, it is the later steps of garbage. This is what we will have to eat, what we will become if we keep the arrogant lifestyle of wasting and polluting. the problem is we don’t just eat this, we will feed on it, smell it, and right now we feed it to the animals, the trees and the waterways around it. Now we eat those animals and trees and it is a cycle we continue, then us ourselves with each meal become closer of being what is in the plates, and if you don’t like it, or you don’t want to eat it then wake up and take initiative towards your environment.
The substance in these plates are from Tanjaro. A used-to-be-lake that became contaminated because of dumping so much trash into it. The issue is the abundance of time, trash and leftover oils has turned it into a smelly mix of liquids that poison thousands of Kilometers along its rivers and surrounding it.
