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Hayv Kahraman

HAYV KAHRAMAN

Not Quite Human: Second Iteration Pilar Corrias 28 March–2 May 2020 Online Only
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Pilar Corrias is pleased to present Not Quite Human: Second Iteration, an exhibition of ten new paintings and a group of drawings by Iraqi artist, Hayv Kahraman. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at Pilar Corrias, London. In this new body of work, Kahraman explores the transition that happens between a normative human and the other. Depicting contortionists, her figures are placed in seemingly impossible poses, attracting the voyeuristic gaze through an eroticisation and fetishisation of the ‘other’. Yet their faces are undeterred; the gaze is tolerated. This interplay allows for the subjects to be both looked at and to ‘look back at’, subverting the colonizer’s power, and calling attention to the dehumanisation of the colonised.

Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad, Iraq and lives and works in Los Angeles. Selected exhibitions include MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2019); Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Netherlands (2019); ICA Boston, Boston, MA (2019) Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, Honolulu, HI (2019); De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, UK (2019); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2018); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2018); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2017); and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE (2016). Her work is featured in several public collections including the British Museum, London, UK; San Diego Museum of Art, CA, USA; LACMA, CA, USA; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; The Barjeel Art Foundation Sharjah, UAE; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art Doha, Qatar; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA; North Carolina; Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

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Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad, Iraq and lives and works in Los Angeles. Selected exhibitions include MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2019); Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Netherlands (2019); ICA Boston, Boston, MA (2019) Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, Honolulu, HI (2019); De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, UK (2019); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2018); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2018); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2017); and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE (2016). Her work is featured in several public collections including the British Museum, London, UK; San Diego Museum of Art, CA, USA; LACMA, CA, USA; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; The Barjeel Art Foundation Sharjah, UAE; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art Doha, Qatar; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA; North Carolina; Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

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About the Gallery
Pilar Corrias is a contemporary art gallery in the heart of London’s West End which opened in 2008. The 3,800 square foot gallery space on Eastcastle Street was designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas and is made up of two exhibition spaces.

Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the central aim of allowing their work to grow both in terms of production of new projects and the making of new exhibitions. Alongside its internal programming, the gallery places great importance on supporting their artists through fostering relationships with public institutions, private foundations, museums, and commissioning bodies.
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Pilar Corrias contemporary art gallery in Eastcastle Street London United Kingdom
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54 Eastcastle Street, London, United Kingdom
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