Michael Rakowitz’s artwork remaking deity destroyed by Isis installed in Trafalgar SquareA recreation of a protective deity destroyed by Islamic State in Iraq has been unveiled on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth – rebuilt with 10,500 empty date syrup cans.As the black drapery fell away to reveal what the artist, Michael Rakowitz, has described as “a palimpsest of loss” for the people of Iraq, their cultural history, and a once great export industry, tears filled the eyes of a woman from Nineveh. Continue reading…
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