Artist Jala Wahid’s print edition is drawn from a still of her film Cry Me a Waterfall, an extended music video featuring a performance by Amal Saeed Kurda of a newly composed English-language love song addressed to Bekhal Waterfall in Kurdistan.

In the film, the waterfall becomes both beloved and contested terrain: a site onto which longing, devotion and nationalism are projected. The love song format complicates this desire: is the land to be possessed, protected, conquered or communed with? Wahid exposes the tension between intimacy and sovereignty, revealing how nationalist attachment can blur into fantasy.

Water operates as a central metaphor. Fluid and uncontainable, it resists fixed borders, echoing the condition of Kurdish statelessness. In this context, homeland becomes something unstable, not only a geography denied political recognition, but a shifting emotional and imaginative space.

By isolating a cinematic moment and translating it into print, Jala Wahid condenses the work’s emotional register. The image holds longing and ambiguity in suspension, capturing the friction between personal desire and collective history.

Produced in a limited edition of 100, the print offers a focused encounter with Wahid’s exploration of diaspora, identity and the poetics of land.

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