This piece of art made of junk, suddenly turned up in my hometown: «The invisible enemy should not exist» by Michael Rakowitz.
The sculpture is a reconstruction of a guardian figure from an ancient Assyrian temple. The temple has been subject to looting and destruction since the 1850s, when British archaeologists first began removing artworks from the palace to send to the West. Further waves of colonial plunder occurred before ISIS destroyed the remaining structures in 2015.
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