Rheim Alkadhi

Templates for Liberation

Posted in Uncategorized by ///// on 20/10/2024

Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Opened 11 June 2024

Gallery exhibition and reading room.

Harvest of Flames (foreground)
For the Oppressed to Narrate the Crimes of Their Oppressors (Devastation Panorama)
Industrial transport tarp (petroleum byproduct), tar, sand, gravel residues and particulates, curved wall.
560 x 166cm
To Demilitarize: Disarmed Wing of Hermes UAV M.A.L.E. Drone (left)
Industrial transport tarp (petroleum byproduct)
462 x 70cm folded

Communal Ground (right)
Industrial transport tarp (petroleum byproduct)
235 x 362cm
Harvest of Flames (foreground)
Confluence of Our Currents
Industrial transport tarp (petroleum byproduct), metal girding and damming structures
Dimensions variable
Templates for Liberation (partial installation view)

Reading Room

Guests with research material.

Comprising biometric studies in five volumes under the titles Arabs of Central Iraq (1935) and Anthropology of Iraq, pts.1-4 (1940-1952), by Henry Field. In later years, these studies were revealed to be part of the CIA’s top secret ‘M-Project’ (M for Migration), of which Field was the director.

Also included in this vitrine are two volumes from the same series called Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran pts.1-2 (1939), plus released documents from the ‘M Project’

Display of books alongside labels and counter-labels.

Transynchronic Rebel Portraits
Ethnographic subjects rise from the pages of specimenship, across more than a century of carceral enclosures, borders, and governance imposed by western imperial powers.
Digital prints
210 x 297cm, each of many (ongoing)

Message from a Transynchronic Rebel 
Multiple, as gallery guide

Photos: Christiane Schmidt

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