Êvar Huseynî
Êvar Huseynî is a Kurdish artist and archivist whose experimental work moves between books, film, photography and mixed media installations. Her work explores how archives shape Kurdish identity formation, solidarity building, liberation tactics, and how communities resist erasure through their own forms of remembering. Êvar’s practice is grounded in the quiet gestures of collecting, annotating, and sharing knowledge, often with attention to the intimacies that formal archives overlook. She asks what role archives might play in shaping freedom - specifically that of occupied people and lands.
The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL), founded by Êvar in 2019, is an experimental community archive based at Somerset House Studio’s
dedicated to WANA thought, art, and literature. In carefully growing the library and the feminist practice that guides the WANAWAL approach, WANAWAL has been able to
reach a place of experimentation and adaptation to nurture ideas around collective memory as a liberation practice.
dedicated to WANA thought, art, and literature. In carefully growing the library and the feminist practice that guides the WANAWAL approach, WANAWAL has been able to
reach a place of experimentation and adaptation to nurture ideas around collective memory as a liberation practice.
Êvar @ DAI:
2025-2026 COOP study group ~ Cemeterial Ecologies, Grieving and Zombie Time