Painting Without Paint: Four Sisters, Three Dresses. (11th November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barwari, Nuveen
• Is Part Of: Journal of intersectionality. Volume 6:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 17
• Page End: 29
• Publication Date: 2022-11-11
• Subjects: Kurdish art -- Kurdish diaspora -- United States -- Kurdish dress -- jilli Kurdi -- Iraqi Kurdistan -- instersectionality -- conflict; 305
• DOI: 10.13169/jinte.6.1.0002
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2515-2122

Abstract

Abstract : Nuveen Barwari uses the multiple layers of the jilli Kurdi (Kurdish dress) as a metaphor for the multiple layers of a Kurdish diasporic identity. Using Édouard Glissant's concept of opacity, Barwari engages with the jilli Kurdi as artistic inspiration, describing it as private space for an individual, and for a diasporic community as anapparatus that works in opposition to transparency, protecting the unseen, and resisting a colonial gaze.