Piers Secunda
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Piers Secunda
Piers Secunda
The Mosul Museum series, produced after Secunda visited Mosul in 2018, is a continuation of his decade-long project documenting the deliberate cultural destruction worldwide, and depict the devastation of the city’s Cultural Museum by ISIS during their occupation, which began in 2014.
The photogravure etching is printed with charcoal gathered by myself from inside the ISIS burned portion of the Mosul Museum in 2018, a few months after the city was liberated.
Access to the Museum was given by the Iraqi Culture Minister Fryad Rwandozi, after we met at a UNESCO general Meeting in 2017, at which the discussions revolved around the destruction of culture. By that time, I had been making work about this subject for a decade.
I went into the Mosul Museum with the Iraq army specifically to make moulds of the smashed sculptures, which were then used to make an installation for the Ashmolean Museum, which they exhibited for about a year
