Overview
The ICA SF presents Hayv Kahraman’s largest museum solo exhibition to date, premiering new techniques and large-scale installations. Informed by her own experience as an Iraqi/Kurdish refugee pressured to assimilate, Kahraman explores the experience of hypervisibility and invisibility of the othered body. In Look Me in the Eyes, Kahraman contends with the colonial gaze, pushing against erasure and imagining alternative ways of existing.
The ICA SF presents Hayv Kahraman’s largest museum solo exhibition to date, premiering new techniques and large-scale installations. Informed by her own experience as an Iraqi/Kurdish refugee pressured to assimilate, Kahraman explores the experience of hypervisibility and invisibility of the othered body. In Look Me in the Eyes, Kahraman contends with the colonial gaze, pushing against erasure and imagining alternative ways of existing.
