Exiled Sudanese Artists Reflect on Their Country’s Art Scene, Devastated by an Ongoing Civil War

Rashid Diab, one of Sudan’s most prolific painters and art historians, sits next to his son, Yafil Mubarak, an artist, curator, and his father’s studio manager, for a video call from their current studio in Madrid. They are discussing the past, present, and future of their beloved country, from which they have lived in exile for nearly two years.“Those who came and destroyed everything in our country—they’re not Sudanese,” Diab says. “So the question is,