We Don’t Say Goodbye

Meloni’s original aim was to connect the history of troubled countries with their
current events to explore new ways of capturing uprisings against totalitarianism and the after-effects of colonial ventures.
‘My intent was to try, within the limits of visual language, to understand and rationalise a conflict- its roots and evolution-and thus position it within its historical context. The Islamic State’s
emergence was a logical development, and I can potentially understand why many young men
in Iraq, Syria and Libya decided to join. I asked myself many times: if I had been born Iraqi and my
family was killed by US soldiers, what might I have done?