HIWA K
In Hiwa K’s “Blind as the Mother Tongue” at New York’s New Museum, the artist escorts viewers through the political upheavals and social fabric of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he was born. Titled after the 2017 video , which debuted at Documenta 14 in Athens, the exhibition emphasized showing over telling, as well as the artist’s commitment to vernacular knowledge and self-education as a
