Michael Rakowitz
The invisible enemy should not exist. Presentations in Sharjah 2007 and at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, 2016. Text by Gauthier Lesturgie and photos.
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Left:
museum number: IM41113
excavation number: Kh. VIII 262
provenance: Khafaje
dimension(s) (in cm): height: 18.1
material: Alabaster, bitumen on hair and beard
date: Early Dynastic II (ca. 2600 - 2400 BC)
description: Standing male figure; holes for attachment of legs, which are missing. Eyeballs of shell; pupils of lapis lazuli
Such loss in not only a local loss but a loss for all of humanity.
— Angela M.H. Schuster
Right:
provenance: Nimrud (Northwest Palace)
dimension(s) (in cm): height: 16.1
material: ivory
date: Neo Assyrian (ca. 720 BC)
description: ivory plaque, relief-decorated, showed head of a women, smiling, "en face," hair colored black; probably part of a furniture fitting
status: initially reported lost, later found severely damaged in a flooded bank vault
On days when clashes erupted between coalition forces and the Mehdi Army in Southern Iraq, looting at the archeological sites increased dramatically.
— Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton
© Photo: Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
Photographer: Nick Ash
The invisible enemy should not exist. Presentations in Sharjah 2007 and at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, 2016. Text by Gauthier Lesturgie and photos.