A Season in Slemani

Between March and June 2019, Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli invited a number of artists to join him in the city of Sulaymaniyah (Slemani, in Kurdish language), in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, to develop their own projects. The result was a programme of artist residencies and long-distance collaborations, which led to a necessary confrontation with the territory. Slemani is a secluded and hard-to-reach place, which the artists have had the opportunity to experience in the dimension of everyday life, which flows despite the critical issues that characterise it. The book A Season in Slemani collects the results of this programme and presents a selection of photographic and documentary materials that narrate and contextualise the processes. A text by Ilaria Gianni (independent curator and writer) and a chronology edited by Camilla Insom (researcher in Iranistics, La Sapienza University, Rome) complete the book.

CONTRIBUTORS
Gianfranco Baruchello; Manuel Scano Larrazábal; Gabriele Silli; Giacomo Sponzilli; Giulio Squillacciotti

CREDITS
Design: Edoardo Visalli | This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Una Stagione a Slemani / A Season in Slemani (16 September – 31 October, 2021) curated by Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli at Fondazione Baruchello in Rome, in the frame of “Summer Show,” a project by Fondazione Baruchello promoted by “Roma Culture,” and winner of “Avviso pubblico Estate Romana 2020–2021–2022,” curated by Dipartimento Attività Culturali in collaboration with SIAE. A special thanks to Pietro Arco Franchetti for his support.