The artist Ali Toffan Al-Fatlawi was born in Baghdad, his beginnings were in painting and poetry, at an early age he became a member of the Iraqi Writers Union. He entered the Art Institute to study art, but the political situation forced him to leave his homeland. After a long journey, he arrived in Switzerland in 1997 and continued his artistic education at the F + F School of Art and Media Design in Zurich, where he graduated in 2002. He wrote and produced many short films, besides his cinematic work Ali Toffan has been touring many countries with his performance art for 20 years and has already received several awards for his work, such as the Swiss Art Award 2012 & the Performance Art Award 2011.