Yahya Abdullah

Kirkuk: Fragments, Mirrors

How can one create a dialogue with what is nearly lost, before it cannot even be recognized? Or ever recovered?

The Citadel of Kirkuk persists today as a fragmented portal into past civilizations and present-day conflicts. Centuries of war and civil tensions have eroded the site and displaced or eradicated its occupants. A decaying city in limbo, the citadel has been effectively “disappeared” to the international community. A library and museum of archaeology are injected into the site, sown as early seeds consolidating Kirkuk’s histories at risk of erasure, creating a place to collect, store, and remember.

Advisor: Laura Miller