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Soleimani’s work regularly examines the history of the petroleum trade and warfare tied to oil extraction. Her series Qatar 2022 adds spilled milk to the greased tracks. While extraordinarily wealthy because of its oil and gas reserves, Qatar imports most of its food from neighbors, like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Or at least it did, until its only land border was closed in 2017 and a country that had imported 80% of its milk, bought 4000 cows from Australia, got the US to put them on airplanes and within a few years was able to produce two times more milk than its citizens could drink. Qatar …