Talal Refit

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Talal Refit is an Iraqi visual artist, architect and multimedia designer. He was born in Kirkuk, 1957. He is a graduate from the Faculty of Architecture of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. After working for Ankara’s Department of City and Regional Planning, he settled in Germany in 1985. From 1990 he has worked as an art instructor in painting and graphics. His work Democracy (2005) is an enlarged Arab bench, of the sort commonly found in Baghdad. Its function is to offer a substantial extension to the political notion of Democracy. The short film Epilog (2005) recalls the lost past through cartoons. Talal Refit lives and works in Bad Bentheim, Germany.