Resilience of Al-Mutanabbi Street /
Kermaire, Christine.
Charleroi, Belgium : Christine Kermaire,
2011.
Red paper with fragments of quote (in Arabic) from Kant's Critique of pure reason pasted to gray paper. Stitched in red silk thread, with trailing ends; bound accordion-style in covers of black-and-gray houndstooth-print fabric over pasteboard. Housed in a hand-made, balsa wood case (10 x 10 x 3 cm.).
Created for the "An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street" project to commemorate the 2007 car bombing on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, which was the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community.
Issued in an edition of 300, signed and numbered by the author.
Kermaire, Christine.
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