House of Memory by Basil Al-Rawi

You start in a dim courtyard of a traditional Iraqi shanasheel house, with wooden balconies, lattice screens and a black-and-white portrait on the wall. Step towards the photo and everything goes dark. When New Lines magazine tried the piece in 2024, that portrait of a 16-year-old opened onto her family's garden in al-Adhamiya, Baghdad, with breakfast on a blanket while her own voice described it.

The photographs and voices come from the Iraq Photo Archive, Basil Al-Rawi's online collection of family pictures sent in by Iraqis, and the stories are mostly of the 1970s and the displacement that followed. The work grew out of his PhD at the Glasgow School of Art.

It lasts 15 minutes, in English with Arabic subtitles or the reverse, and Bozar recommends it from age 12. It's in Foyer 4. Tickets are €6, or free on the same day with a ticket for Kentridge, Brusselmans, Dekyndt x Balenciaga or Central.