Photo Staged photographs by Akam Shex Hadi at the Venice Biennale feature people from communities under Islamic State attack with black fabric coiled around their feet. Credit Akam Shex Hadi VENICE — When Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to the Islamic State in June, members of the Ruya Foundation, an Iraqi nonprofit that set up the country’s pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, considered scrapping all plans for this year’s exhibition. “With all this carnage and death and rape, how could you even think of culture?” said Tamara Chalabi, chairwoman of the foundation.
In the end, the plans went forward because …read more
Source: Iranian.com
