Video Title : Dia Al-Azzawi
Video Description : This video brought to you by Tate.org.uk Having moved to the UK in 1976, artist Dia Al-Azzawi found that by viewing Iraq from afar, he could understand more about Iraqi and Arabic culture than if he had remained there. Al-Azzawi's vast drawing Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982-3 is an example of work that arose from this process of observation. Here Al-Azzawi explains how working from imagination, he depicted the painting's scenes of chaos in a semi-abstract style to create a work that is not a propaganda piece, but which documents a tragedy.
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