Katharine Cooper at Rotterdam’s new Fenix Museum
January 5, 2025
Katharine Cooper’s work ‘Hussein with his birdcage at Kastal al-Harami’ will be part of the permanent collection of Rotterdam’s new Fenix Museum, the first museum in the world to tell stories of migration through art, in the section The Family of Migrants.
This work is part of a series made by Cooper during several journeys to Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan in 2015. What distinguishes Cooper is that she is known for depicting women, men, and children with a great form of respect and sensitivity.
The Family of Migrants is inspired by the legendary MoMA 1955 exhibition The Family of Man by photographer Edward Steichen, which told the universal and timeless story of humanity. The Family of Migrants will do the same, but with a focus on perhaps the most universal and timeless topic of all: migration.
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Image: Katharine Cooper, Hussein with his Birdcage at Kastal al-Harami, Eastern Aleppo, May 2017, Silver-gelatin fibre print, 40 x 40 cm, 60 x 60 cm