Farhud – Part One: Fuad is the first part of a trilogy examining the Farhud, the pogrom against the Jewish community of Baghdad in June 1941. The project begins with a story Meir Tati heard from his father, whose nickname, Fuad—“heart” in Arabic—gives this first chapter its subtitle.

According to the family story, Tati’s uncle was murdered during the Farhud. Yet the remembered details, including the date of his death, do not fully correspond with the historical record. This gap between family memory and documented history became the starting point for a broader investigation into the ways personal, collective, and political memories are constructed.

The installation combines wall drawings based on family photographs, historical images of the Farhud, and contemporary press photographs of violent clashes between Jews and Arabs in Israel. These images are placed alongside a large illuminated work bearing the word “Farhud” and a video featuring singer Aviv Ezra performing in Iraqi Arabic.

By bringing personal testimony, archival documents, and contemporary images into the same space, Tati does not attempt to resolve their contradictions. Instead, the work treats memory as a field of competing narratives and asks how historical violence continues to shape the present.