Ebti Nabag

Aug 15, 2024 | threemagazine.com | Pacinthe Mattar |Ebti Nabag |Melissa Vincent |Daniel Bernhard

Amin Alsaden has always had “a very complicated” relationship with institutions. Growing up in Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s rule, he lived near some of the country’s most elite culture venues—but because he came from a family that was critical of the regime, he rarely set foot in them. Still, he remembers being awestruck by the “bizarre” contemporary art he glimpsed through the windows, or on the rare occasion he could enter for free.