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The Iraqis Sky between the ancient Mesopotamia and the Dystopian society

Bilal Bahir questions his memory of Baghdad's sky, from his childhood up till today, through a series of drawings. The series is a documentary and poetic research into the sky of his city of birth that through recent history supported different kinds of flying objects. Counting his first memory as a tale, Bilal Bahir draws the objects from his childhood into the sky, starting with the mobile above his cot and other toys like a kite, a paper plane, but also including flying objects from Baghdadi children’s imagination world, coming from mythology and popular tales as told by their mothers and grandmothers. When the Gulf war started, Bilal discovered as a young child the dark meaning of airplanes and missiles in the air. His perspective on the sky of his childhood was changed forever by the several wars in Iraq. 

Bilal Bahir’s work researches the diversity of cultures in a vast chronological perspective.