Visitors to the Aga Khan Museum can help rebuild a destroyed Iraq library, book by book
Blank books are part of 168:01, now on display at the Aga Khan Museum.
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Article Author: Visitors to the Aga Khan Museum can help rebuild a destroyed Iraq library, book by book
Media Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
Date: 8 August 2018
An expanse of pale bookcases line the wall of a second-floor gallery at the Aga Khan Museum, shimmering in low light. For Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi-American artist, this project is no mere conceptual project. Every colourless book — blank, cover-to-cover — is meant not to stand sentinel-like for loss, but to quickly leave this place.…
An expanse of pale bookcases line the wall of a second-floor gallery at the Aga Khan Museum, shimmering in low light. For Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi-American artist, this project is no mere conceptual project. Every colourless book — blank, cover-to-cover — is meant not to stand sentinel-like for loss, but to quickly leave this place. In Baghdad, the library of the School of Fine Arts has compiled a wishlist of books to replace the 70,000 destroyed or looted in the Iraq War.