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Insularity in modern art

Insularity in modern art
The project incorporates a wide variety of public engagement events and workshops, centred around the material culture of the three islands and the East Mediterranean. Through contemporary art, it explores themes of insularity and identity.
Issam Kourbaj's display 'Don’t Wash Your Hands, neither light agrees to enter the eyes nor air the lungs', Fitzwilliam Museum 2020. The display incorporated three Eye Idols from Tell Brak, Syria (Fitzwilliam Museum, Ancient Near East collection) 366 eye idols made of Aleppo soap,
Issam Kourbaj's display 'Don’t Wash Your Hands, neither light agrees to enter the eyes nor air the lungs', Fitzwilliam Museum 2020. The display incorporated three Eye Idols from Tell Brak, Syria (Fitzwilliam Museum, Ancient Near East collection) 366 eye idols made of Aleppo soap,
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