Title: Still alive
Description: This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.

"Colours, materials and poetic texts that carry marks and fragments between transparency and opacity, and are at the same time evoking and healing the reality of a wound that can't sink into oblivion"--Statement from the Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

Pieretta Sakellariou was born in Athens in 1957, and has lived in France since 1975, where she studied Fine Arts at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the distinguished National School of Fine Arts and Human Sciences, in Paris. Besides her work as a clinical psychologist, she has had an active career in the so-called "plastic arts," with several exhibitions. She has also written both published and unpublished works of poetry. Sakellariou currently works at a counseling center for children and teenagers, where her psychotherapeutic workshops focus on art and the creative process.
Subjects: Violence, Pictorial works, Booksellers and bookselling, Bombings, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Protest movements, Books and reading in art, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Censorship, Terrorism in art, In art, War and civilization, Vehicle bombs, Visual literature, Specimens, Conceptual art, Miniature books, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Greece, Athens
People: Pieretta Sakellariou (1957-)
Time periods: 21st century