Piaw

In Kurdish, piaw means “man”. In this series, the word goes beyond its literal sense to evoke resilience and the ability to endure through the changing fortunes of history.

Over several years, Hawar Amini photographed the men of Kurdistan. What began as photography gradually turned into painting, pattern and colour. The lines and textures of these faces tell of great hopes and deep disappointments; behind these haunting, dreamlike portraits lie both the passage of time and the marks left by history.

The series brings together paintings, videos and a set of related works in various formats.