Traces of Survival: Drawings by Refugees in Iraq selected by Ai Weiwei

This work is by an 18-year-old school girl and depicts the girl’s best friend who she saw dead and bloodied after being having been raped on Mount Sinjar. At the time this drawing was made, her friend was still unburied. The caption refers to a holy Yezidi shrine, which is being visited in an attempt to save the mountain. You can see the girl praying in the upper left hand corner.