Melike Kara’s (b. 1985) paintings and her entire body of work draw on traditional Kurdish patterns and designs. She weaves together personal narratives, fates, traditions, and rituals. A network of connections emerges in which abstraction is synonymous with the condition of the Kurdish people. As personal as they are, her works become an expansion of her family and of the Kurds. She works actively for remembering and not forgetting and creates a very artistic, but all the more powerful, form of opposition