Representative work by Wafaa Bilal
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Wafaa Bilal

b. 1966, Najaf, Iraq · Iraqi-American

Wafaa Bilal creates performance and interactive media projects around war, surveillance, displacement and the relationship between remote viewers and real-world violence. His work often places his own body inside systems of technological control.

Performance; installation; digital media

Major Works

  • 2007Domestic Tension
  • 2010…And Counting
  • 2010–113rdi
  • 2008Virtual Jihadi
  • 2003–10The Ashes Series
  • 2008Dog or Iraqi
  • 2015Canto III
  • 2016168:01
  • 2010sA Call
  • 2010sThe Things I Could Tell...

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