Mario Codognato, writer and curator, meet Ahmed Alsoudani, an Iraqi refugee living in the United States, to discuss about the relationship between war and a work of art, memory and history.
Ahmed Alsoudani (1975, Baghdad)
Influenced by works that have become the lasting consciousness of the atrocities committed during the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Goya’s Disasters of War or Picasso’s Guernica, Alsoudani is interested in keeping history and memory alive in the present. He combines drawing and painting in the manner of Gorky and Bacon, to present subtly twisted, unsettling images of a country under occupation and war.
