LONDON—An exhibition of Iraqi contemporary art here is part of a visual research project that hopes to change how Mesopotamian heritage is documented.
Hanaa Malallah, an Iraqi artist and academic who lives in London, is running the project, called “Co-Existent Ruins: Exploring Iraq’s Mesopotamian Past Through Contemporary Art”. Five fellow Iraqi artists at four ancient Mesopotamian sites are collaborating in the project.
The project tries to show the sites—Ur, Babylon, Nippur and Nimrud—in a new light.