You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.