Article Author: How an artist is rebuilding a Baghdad library destroyed during the Iraq war
Media Source: Smithonian.com (USA)
Date: 16 August 2018
A new installation at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, encourages visitors to donate books to the University of Baghdad. “168:01,” as the project by Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal is titled, is a stark white display featuring bookshelves filled with 1,000 blank books. Visitors are encouraged to replenish the volumes with t
A new installation at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, encourages visitors to donate books to the University of Baghdad. “168:01,” as the project by Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal is titled, is a stark white display featuring bookshelves filled with 1,000 blank books. Visitors are encouraged to replenish the volumes with titles from an Amazon wish list compiled by the college’s students and faculty; donations can be made by sending the books on the wish list to the museum, or by gifting funds to the project through Bilal’s website.