Threads of Light ' Hanoos Hanoos / Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

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The Mosaic Rooms is pleased to present a two-part exhibition featuring paintings by Iraqi artist Hanoos Hanoos in the main gallery space, and a selection of art books and broadsheets from the project Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here in the lower gallery. Hanoos Hanoos' exhibition Threads of Light will include recent paintings inspired by the work of the great Iraqi poet Abdel-Wahab Al-Bayatti. Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here is a project featuring hundreds of international responses by artists and writers to the tragic 2007 bombing that destroyed Baghdad's cultural and intellectual hub: Al-Mutanabbi Street.