Sixteen chairs, one for every pivotal year in Iraq, 2003 to 2020. The same damaged Louis-style seat returns each time, repainted white only in the final piece.
Exhibited in Tahrir Square during the 2019 protests, covered live by Dijlah TV.
01 / 162003 A regime falls, a chair breaking under its own weight.
02 / 162004 A constitution, signed in blood.
03 / 162005 A car door and dynamite, fused to the seat.
04 / 162007 A masked figure. The war goes anonymous.
05 / 162008 A safe overflows while a nation drowns in debt.
06 / 162009 The map itself, cracked and bleeding along old fault lines.
07 / 162011 A refugee tent replaces a seat at the table.
08 / 162012 A city's waste, left uncollected.
09 / 162013 A passport, the exit so many chose that year.
10 / 162014 ISIS enters. A door with no handle.
11 / 162015 Buried in ash and rubble.
12 / 162016 Wired for the fight to take it back.
13 / 162017 The cage door, finally within reach.
14 / 162018 Diplomas rolled in dust, a generation waiting to build.
15 / 162019 Hard hats, stained red. The cost of asking for reform.
16 / 162020 The first chair painted white. Something is finally allowed to grow.
