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Waafa Bilal @wafaabilal “The Things I Could Tell” exhibition @andersonvcuarts @vcuarts with Iraqi War Vets. Thank you @hope_q_ginsburg for an awesome visit! #HopeGinsburg #wafaabilal (at Anderson Gallery)

@wafaabilal work featured at Islamic Art: Past, Present and Future. @vmfamuseum #islamicart2017 #wafaabilal #NadaShabout (at VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)

Wafaa Bilal, "The Ashes Series: Market," 2003-13, archival inkjet photograph, 40 x 50 inches. All images courtesy Driscoll Babcock and the artist. On view in the exhibition "Wafaa Bilal: The Ashes Series" at Driscoll Babcock Galleries. Wafaa Bilal asks us to bear witness, examine, and understand recent history. In his most recent series, "The Ashes Series," Bilal displays the suffering of war through the absence of human life. In this series Bilal uses the photograph as documentation, a place for meditation, and reflection on destruction and what has been lost. He archives history and brings it to our awareness through reconstructions, humor, and performance. Interview with the artist in Hyperallergic: "Wafaa Bilal’s War of Images" by Samuel Jablon, 2014 #WafaaBilal #PMxPostMeridiem #Ashes #History #Archives #Absence