Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli, A season in Slemani, 2021

Between March and June 2019 Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli invited some artists to the city of Sulaymaniyah (Slemani, in the Kurdish language), in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to join him to each develop their own project. The result was a program of artist residencies and remote collaborations, which led to a necessary comparison with the territory. Slemani is a secluded and difficult to reach place, which the artists have had the opportunity to experience in the dimension of daily life, which flows despite the critical issues that characterize it. The book A Season in Slemani collects the results of this program and presents a selection of photographic and documentary materials that narrate and contextualize the processes. The volume is completed by a text by Ilaria Gianni (independent curator and writer) and a chronology by Camilla Insom (researcher in Iranian studies, La Sapienza University, Rome).