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This Mex­ico City ex­hi­bi­tion is the sec­ond pre­sen­ta­tion of the full in­stal­la­tion of Bagh­dad Case Study, orig­i­nally com­mis­sioned by and con­ceived for Haus der Kul­turen der Welt in Berlin. The in­stal­la­tion uses the US em­bassy com­plex in Bagh­dad, de­signed by Jose Luis Sert and com­pleted in 1960, as a plat­form to in­ves­ti­gate the diplo­matic de­vo­lu­tion be­tween the US and Iraq. As pointed out by Adam Klein­man in his Art Agenda ar­ti­cle, the pro­ject has a par­tic­u­lar mean­ing to Mex­ico, it­self the tar­get of past US in­ter­ven­tions. The in­stal­la­tion was mod­i­fied slightly, all doc­u­men­ta­tion now pre­sented on a sin­gle table, plus the ad­di­tion of a num­ber of ink stud­ies for Bagh­dad Screen, as well a new po­lit­i­cal chronol­ogy of twen­ti­eth cen­tury Iraq.

 

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: In­stal­la­tion views, draw­ing de­tails (ink on velum with col­lage)

 

Bagh­dad Case Study (LA­BOR)

Ter­ence Gower, 2014

Cedar-ve­neer ply­wood, steel, pa­per, acrylic, dig­i­tal prints, draw­ings on velum

6 x 18 me­tres over­all

 

Ex­hib­ited at LA­BOR, Mex­ico City

 

Press Re­lease: Bagh­dad Case Study