I Can See You
Sajjad Abbas
2013
Video, color, sound, 5 min 03 sec
The video follows the communal effort to produce and install the urban intervention in the center of Baghdad: a giant white fabric with a print of Abbas’s eye, alongside large Arabic letters reading Akder Ashoufak (I Can See You), spray-painted atop a building.
Positioned to overlook the Green Zone, once a government hub, later a fortified American base, and finally the seat of Iraq’s interim government, the work inverts power dynamics: citizens now monitor the politicians inside the zone.
Though it was swiftly removed by authorities, the piece calls attention to residents trapped in a city ransacked and partitioned by violence and military occupation.
From 3 to 19 October - 10am to 6pm
Association Culturelle El Makhzen
Duration: 5 min 03 sec
Access with Dream Exhibition Pass per day: 15 DT
Students and children under 12: 10 DT