al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1234
first posted in facebook october 30, 2023
michael rakowitz -- "the invisible enemy should not exist (northwest palace of nimrud" room n, panel n-14
[composed of arabic newspapers, food packaging, cardboard relief sculptures on wood panel, museum labels]
"'the invisible enemy should not exist (northwest palace of nimrud)' constructs reappearances of historically looted and recently destroyed relief sculptures that lined the walls of the ancient assyrian palace of nimrud (present day mosul, iraq)" … nimrud gallery
"[this is] part of an ongoing series called 'the invisible enemy should not exist', which, [rakowitz] says, is a reflection on 'the threat to cultural heritage in times of war'. its long-term aim is to reproduce, in some shape or form, the 7,000 cultural artefacts that have been reported as missing, either looted or destroyed, since the beginning of the iraq war in 2003" … peter aspden
"i am attracted to work that can make you feel really good and really bad at the same time and i think that there’s something redemptive in the reappearance of these artefacts, these ghosts of things that are lost" … michael rakowitz
"you think that you can create a history of what has been. present artifacts. a clutch of letters. a sachet in a dressing table drawer. but that's not what's at the heart of the tale. the problem is that what drives the tale will not survive the tale" … cormac mccarthy
"al things must pass" … al janik