Mahmoud Obaidi
Working in a range of media including sculpture, silkscreen prints, video, and installation, Mahmoud Obaidi is an Iraqi-born Canadian conceptual artist who often explores the history of his home country using imagery related to politics, propaganda, violence, and popular culture. For his best known work, The Replacement, a.k.a. The Imposter Project (2014), Obaidi recreated found political campaign materials of a now unknown man which were discovered in an unknown location in the Middle East and are believed to date from 1979 to 1983. The installation addresses the subject of political propaganda through different modes of communication and imagery. With regard to his artistic practice, Obaidi notes that ‘Information is bigger and more important than the object and the intellectual product is the whole process.’
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, Stevenson Hall in Toronto, and 4 Walls Gallery in Amman. His work has been included in group exhibitions at a number of museums and galleries around the world, including the National Museum of Bahrain in Manama, Musée de l’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, Station Museum of …
Working in a range of media including sculpture, silkscreen prints, video, and installation, Mahmoud Obaidi is an Iraqi-born Canadian conceptual artist who often explores the history of his home country using imagery related to politics, propaganda, violence, and popular culture. For his best known work, The Replacement, a.k.a. The Imposter Project (2014), Obaidi recreated found political campaign materials of a now unknown man which were discovered in an unknown location in the Middle East and are believed to date from 1979 to 1983. The installation addresses the subject of political propaganda through different modes of communication and imagery. With regard to his artistic practice, Obaidi notes that ‘Information is bigger and more important than the object and the intellectual product is the whole process.’
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, Stevenson Hall in Toronto, and 4 Walls Gallery in Amman. His work has been included in group exhibitions at a number of museums and galleries around the world, including the National Museum of Bahrain in Manama, Musée de l’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, and Musée d’Art Contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in Quebec.
Courtesy of Meem Gallery