Portrait of Zain Habboo, sculpture by Nuha al-Radi

Item Data

Creator

Radi, Nuha, 1941-2004
نهى الراضي
Nuhá al-Rāḍī
Nuha Al-Radi
Nuha AlRadi

Date

1995

Item Source

p.106 in Theater of operations: the Gulf Wars 1991-2011 = مسرح العمليات : حروب الخليج / Peter Eleey & Ruba Katrib. New York : MoMA PS1, 2019. (N 8260 .T43 2019 catalog record)

Description

Suggestive of her later series of Embargo sculptures (ca.2000-2003) made from found objects highlighting the effects of US sanctions on the people of Iraq. Exhibited at MoMA PS1 in Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 (3 November 2019 - 1 March 2020)

Contributor

Photo by Kris Graves.
Collection Aysar Akrawi.

Relation

Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991–2011, Nov 3, 2019–Mar 1, 2020 MoMA PS1, MoMA online (moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5084)

Format

Painted metal canister and rock, 10 × 6″ (25.4 × 15.2 cm).