Title: Wings of terror
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.

"A triptych of books against terror with handwritten poems by the artist. 'Wings of terror' opens like a bomb when it is laid down, the three-book form resembling a tank chain or spiked mace. Each book-object consists of three books. In each book-object, there are 2 black books with black wings, but also a light corridor over the little book 'light is where life is.' The two black books and the small book are connected by 'a spiritual closure' represented by a black buckle. We Europeans read from left to right, the Arab world from right to left. Therefore one can attach the book 'Light is where life is' to be positioned on either side between the black wings"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.
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, Cultural property, Destruction and pillage, Poetry, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Germany
People: Ingrid Wiche
Time periods: 21st century