A look back at 'Audible Inaudible' by Hayv Kahraman @ The Third Line, Dubai...
““Using her own experiences during the Iraqi war as the backdrop, Hayv is exploring visual and verbal military elements that the American army employs in conflict zones. More specifically, Hayv is looking into the sound of war, and revisiting the trauma of assosciation with the sounding of a siren, an audible imprint that continues to trigger the same sense of terror that she experienced as a child when she first heard them in Baghdad.”
The element of sensory experience was very strong in the artists fourth solo show in Dubai - the works mostly oil on linen, were immediately haunting. Something very somber lingered around the room, the maginifcent pieces with longing faces, little cuts of foam pressed through linen pieces resembling indeed a violence not too remote from the act of impression itself.
Hayv Kahraman, "Get Direction' : Back (2016) """Left(2016) """Right (2016)'''Straight(2016). @ The Third Line, Dubai, 2016.