Title: Al-Mutanabbi, once again
Description: Wuon-Gean Ho was born in Oxford in 1973, and graduated with a BA in History of Art from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. She works in print, artists' books, and animation. For this project, she collaborated with South African poet Ingrid Scheider, and Italian letterpress artist Umberto Giovannini.
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, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, England, London
People: Wuon Gean Ho, Umberto Giovannini
Time periods: 21st century