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Michael Rakowitz

by Michael Rakowitz, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marianna Vecellio

Using Middle Eastern food packaging and newspapers, this installation recreates the stone reliefs of Room H in the Northwest Palace of Nimrud. Only panels destroyed in 2015 are reconstructed, leaving blank spaces for those removed by earlier archaeologists.

Accession 15228 ISBN 9788836643332 Publisher Silvana Editoriale
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