Last night we went to the opening of “After the Curfew”, an exhibit of the work of three Iraqi artists (Wathiq Al-Ameri, Wamidh Al-Ameri, and Ali Al-Fatlawi) who fled their home country during the regime of Saddam Hussein. After a long and difficult journey through Jordan, Sudan, and Libya, they eventually came to Switzerland and settled in the region around Zurich.
The exhibit, which took place at platform elf, included paintings, mixed-media pieces, video installations, and a performance piece (pictured). The works address the current state of Iraq as a country at war, although somehow in a less graphic way than we expected. I really enjoyed the show, and would recommend it to anyone who has a chance to see it before its closing on May 13th. There will be another performance on May 12th at 20.30.