Mezgeen Aziz Rasheed

Mezgeen Aziz Rasheed was born in 1962 and of Kurdish background. After the fall of Saddam it appeared that she had been making photo collages for ten years, which had even been shown in Iraq. A number of ltalian photographers were so impressed with her work that they decided to introduce it to the West. Rasheed’s collages – scraps from dreams and nightmares- are comprised of portraits, images of greatly enlarged objects, letters, symbols, and other things. She expresses the problematic relationships between men and women, man and God, and men and power. Mezgeen Aziz Rasheed is an engineer and studied at the art academy in Baghdad. She has been Iiving as a refugee in Jordan since 2003.