“Risen from a dream, silently screaming for hope, and longing for home. My creator, London-based Iraqi-Kurdish artist, Walid Siti, internalised my very complex structure. An artist from the lost generation, in exile, and threatened and repressed by decades of uncertainty and war. Today, I represent the deep-rooted violence of a nation, wounded and composed of scorched black earth, twisted with barbed wire and novel toy soldiers. A wreckage, heavy and displaced.

I am a creation by Walid Siti and I come from The Black Tower series.”

The Black Tower, Plastic figurines, paper, acrylic, plaster, twigs, 2016

Wheel of Fortune, Barbed wire, plastic figurines on MDF, motor, 2016

The Flag, Straw, plastic figurines, acrylic on MDF, 2016

Credits and Copyrights: Artwork Images (Courtesy the artist and Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul / Berlin), Text (Tout Près Art Studio).