[IMC-bristol] Houri Ghamian: "Our Bloody Hands"

[Martin Mantxo]

Houri Ghamian: "Our Bloody Hands" 

Photography Installation 


Friday 27th to Saturday 28th June from 5-7pm. Fountains St Augustine's Parade 
opposite the Bristol Hippodrome 



This is the first exhibition that Houri has organised for long time. This is the result of the disappointment and rage of someone who has being suffering together with all those innocent and anonymous victims of Iraq and who has experienced the outrageous level of sophisticated cynicism of our society and government.

Houri Ghamian is a Kurdish refugee who has lived in the UK for 11 years. Houri works as an interpreter and she's a single mother bringing up a kid on her own. Houri Ghamian is also a photographer and poet. And it's good that with such a busy life and so many commitments, still she has found time to recover her creativity and express herself so powerfully. Houri has been actively campaigning against war (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) and on behalf of refugees. 

This exhibition is a brave move, as media attention is diverted from this massacre - the war on Iraq. It is brave because confront people questioning their complacency towards the war. It's brave because it exposes the reality of war from the community who suffers it (Houri interprets for Afghan, Iraqis, Iranian and Kurds many of whom have experienced in their own flesh the results of war). 

The photos have been treated from Houri's special sensitivity and poetry, from her perspective as mother, refugee and politically aware person. The photos will be displayed in a special way - that's why the title 'installation'- but we won't tell you about it. Come and see it by yourself.



"When day turned to night and you rested content in my arms

some other mothers' sons were sent to their death. 
In that faraway place some other mothers scraped

among the rubble for pieces of their children,

while poor limbless children wept in vain for lost mothers. 
So I sing you a lullaby and you lie peacefully in my arms. 
But my thoughts turn to where we might hide our bloody hands." 



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