Christ's Artist work on show at British Museum

The ‘Shock and Awe’ bombardments of the Second Gulf War, and the wonder of a five-year- old reflecting on the creation of each new day, seem like an unlikely marriage of inspirations, yet between them they gave rise to ‘Sound Palimpsest’ by Christ’s College Artist-in-Residence, Issam Kourbaj. The work is currently on show in the British Museum as part of the special display, ‘Iraq 's Past speaks to the Present’, complementing the Museum’s major historical exhibition, Babylon: Myth and Reality.

Issam Kourbaj is Artist in Residence and Bye Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Sound Palimpsest will be on show at the British Museum until mid-March. http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Room 34 Islamic Gallery Booklet FINAL.pdf