Nuveen Barwari

2023-2024

a teacher

lots of women would sell their gold to bail the husbands out of jail

"Leila Qasim"

maps or patterns?

"sobbing flowers"

Saturday Mothers

A Quiet Dance

A flower separated from her own garden

Meeting at the Fleeting mountain

2022-2023

Between Land and Dreams

Boxchk/traveling bundles

Flowers for Gule

view from the window

green face

Here's a tribute to all the Kurdish women like Jina who's names often fade into obscurity

Xin-dar

dream city

mapping grief

Spidey in disguise

pink Middle East

hugging the landscape

Funeral dress

mountain top

street fashion

layers of assimilation

threading my face

starry knight

Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq

framing Duhok

American Kurd

military

red underdress

denim bell

sharwal

2022

stateless-faceless

stateless-faceless

weeping flowers/they set our land on fire

weeping flowers/they set our land on fire

cooking for the peshmergas

cooking for the peshmergas

landscape of Gulistan

landscape of Gulistan

AX

flowers don't die here

flowers don't die here

Pink onion tears

Pink onion tears

free them all

a truth that isn’t translatable

a truth that isn’t translatable

gathering

“My country is a flower garden”

“My country is a flower garden”

watering my house

watering my house

head without a body

head without a body

bring me back some dirt from the homeland

bring me back some dirt from the homeland

2021

How to build a tent

Flower Bomb

Tie-Die

Made 4 the Kitchen

Maps and patterns

Sloppy Borders

flag

Check Points

Gul Birîn/ Cut by a flower

4 sisters, 3 dresses

“He reminded me that the flowers in-front of me have a scent too”

Dance, dance. Revolution.

Zêyê Mezin/ Great Zab

mala me li ser golekê ye

Mimicking nature

“Pigeon post? or Prison Post?”

The Kurdish dress is my school

for Khani

gridlock

prtoqal

operation collage

studio visit with Rothko

2019-2020