This publication and accompanying exhibition contemplates the stream of disruptions and devastations that have taken place in Zainab Hikmet’s home country of Iraq, through transporting and exhibiting a historic self-portrait of a pioneer in Iraqi art, her great-grandfather, Mohammed Salih Zaki, on the 100-year anniversary of its making.

Known as the ‘Sheikh of the artists’ Zaki’s self-portrait unconsciously speaks of war, migration and legacy, having been smuggled out of Baghdad following the war in the early 90’s.

The book was self printed with risography and digital print methods in an edition of 150.