Od uprchlíka umělcem: Serhad Bapir
From Refugee to Artist: Serhad Bapir

Summary/Abstract: The Greek painter and graphic artist of Kurdish origin, Serhad Bapir, was born in 1964 in Tatvan (in eastern Turkey). While attending secondary school there, he actively participated in the Kurdish liberation movement and was subsequently forced to leave his homeland at the age of nineteen. Although he remained in Turkey for another year and a half, he views that period—given his status as a "wanted criminal"—as the beginning of his exile from his homeland: the region of Kurdistan, which remains officially unrecognized by anyone to this day.

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