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“Your parents leave a place, and somehow you have this deep connection to it – even if you’ve never been there, or you don’t quite understand it,” says artist Rand Abdul Jabbar about her latest project,
Every Act of Recognition Alters What Survives,
which looks at generations of diaspora.
“You’re always feeling somewhere in between. It was getting to that ‘in between’ – and opening up that conversation to other voices to see how they think about it – that allows you to start making
sense of your own experience,” she says.
The Baghdad-born artist, who lives in Abu Dhabi, is developing her new work for Shubbak