I aim in this project to show paintings underlines the darkly suggestive response of memory through the observation the everyday life surroundings since I immigrated to Sweden as a refugee in 2007 from my native Iraq.

Modern-domestic, external spaces and ordinary appearances are the triggers of distressing memories in my works. These triggers are symbolic equivalents for human figures and familiar but loaded with tension. The familiar suddenly appears to become strange or threatening but formed by historical harmonic composition and rhythmic structures.
 
I try to free the subject matter from the need of imitating reality and its time-honoured since I applied the index and pun as delusive signifiers from content that is traumatic and violence imageries. As a result, the paintings often appear to be about something else other than the source of the trauma to allow the context to be transitive to the viewers as opposed to being didactic. However, the affective nature of the transaction in my paintings does not force itself to convey a concrete message, but it intends to engage the spectators with artworks conceptually and intellectually.
 
Eventually, in my project, I aim to provide an alternative perspective to the war and its effects while it offers a slow and often personal reading through the complex painterly interplay of the daily objects, atmosphere, textures, and costumes - to evoke the widespread sense of loss and conflicts that inhabit cultures collectively.