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Hayv Kahraman's 'Ghost Fires': Art Amidst Wildfire Displacement

10/4/2025

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Hayv Kahraman's 'Ghost Fires' shows displacement as she returns to her Altadena home amid the Eaton wildfires.
She fled Iraq in 1991, and displacement now intensifies her work amid environmental disaster.
The exhibition features women in athletic poses against scorched landscapes, weaving a Sumerian parable on interconnectedness and extinction, and runs through Oct. 25 at Jack Shainman Gallery, Manhattan.

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Hayv Kahraman's 'Ghost Fires' shows displacement as she returns to her Altadena home amid the Eaton wildfires.
She fled Iraq in 1991, and displacement now intensifies her work amid environmental disaster.
The exhibition features women in athletic poses against scorched landscapes, weaving a Sumerian parable on interconnectedness and extinction, and runs through Oct. 25 at Jack Shainman Gallery, Manhattan.