Piers Secunda

Mosul Museum, 2022

Mosul Museum is available to buy as a set or individually.

We are proud to offer a vial of the Mosul Museum charcoal used to create the drawings and etchings with every purchase.

A portion of all sales will be gifted to Kind Aid, who provide medical assistance, clean water, and food to orphans in the west of Iraq's Kurdish region.

Piers Secunda

Mosul Museum I-V, 2022

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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.

Mosul Museum I

Piers Secunda
Mosul Museum I, 2022

Hand-finished etching with Mosul Museum Ink on Somerset Satin 330gsm
mm x mm
Paper and Image: 400mm x 320mm
Edition of 20
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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
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Mosul Museum II

Piers Secunda
Mosul Museum II, 2022

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Mosul Museum III

Piers Secunda
Mosul Museum III, 2022

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Charcoal produced by the fires lit by ISIS was collected from the ruins by Secunda and soldiers from the Iraqi Army, and upon returning to his studio, was mixed with alcohol and gum Arabic to form the unique inks used in the ‘Mosul Museum’ drawings.

Atelier JI has had the honour of collaborating with Secunda to reproduce the drawings as photogravure etchings using the ink made from the collected Mosul Museum charcoal. Each print was individually hand-finished by Secunda at our studio and packaged alongside a vial of the same charcoal.

Mosul Museum IV

Piers Secunda
Mosul Museum IV, 2022

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Mosul Museum V

Piers Secunda
Mosul Museum V, 2022

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