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The Mesopotamian relief by Piers Secunda
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Digital Rendering of the Triumphal Arch, Palmyra, Syria, Million Image Database, 2016
Exhibition
The Missing
15 Apr 2016 – 14 May 2016
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 4 Manderville Place
- London
- W1U 2BF
- United Kingdom
The Missing: Rebuilding the Past is an exhibition to showcase the efforts of artists and
scholars to resist ISIS and other forms of destruction of the past through creative and innovative reactions, protests, and reconstructions.
About
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has engaged in a systematic campaign to destroy the past, smashing, bombing, and bulldozing irreplaceable cultural heritage across the region. It does so to send a message – that it will not tolerate any opposing views, no matter how ancient, to its bleak and monolithic vision of the world.
Director’s Statement: I am pleased and honoured to be presenting this important exhibition, the first international review of artists’ engagement with ISIS’s actions in the Middle East. To witness the innovative and positive ways that artists - and academics - are responding to the destruction and looting, and the fundamental role technology plays in these efforts, challenges the whole notion of loss in the first place.
