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Art in Exile features three rugs made by Mehdi during his time as a refugee in Stockholm, Sweden.
Combined the three works represent the compounding challenges and influences that underpin the global migration crisis – religious and cultural conflict, notions of state and geopolitics and the mass movement and dispersal of people making treacherous journeys physically and emotionally.
Accompanying the exhibition are several films showing the creation of largest of the three rugs, Tragedy of Refugees, along with the detailed hand-drawn design Mehdi used to make this rug, plus various tools which are used in traditional rug making.

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Mehdi Jalalaghdamian: Art In Exile

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Firstsite, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1JH
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