2009 - AL BRAITHWAITE: MUSEUM NO. 1 HIZBOLLAH’S CAVIAR

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Leather-bound book, brass rifle bullet, camel-bone, prayer beads, 345 pages
28.4 x 23 x 5.5 cm, 2008

AL BRAITHWAITE

'FROM THE ORIENT IN SIPHONAPTERA 13'
Sapele mahogany 10-drawer cabinet, 32.5 x 35.8 x 39.5 cm, 2009

AL BRAITHWAITE

'FROM THE ORIENT IN SIPHONAPTERA 13'
Sapele mahogany 10-drawer cabinet, 32.5 x 35.8 x 39.5 cm, 2009

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'PANOPTICON OF POETIC RUBBISH, A BLOCK'
Eight digital photographs, one flip-flop, spray-white ash museum frame, 100 x 120 x cm, 2009

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'PANOPTICON OF POETIC RUBBISH, B BLOCK'. Eight digital photographs, discarded cigarette packets, spray-white ash museum frame, 100 x 120 x cm, 2009

AL BRAITHWAITE: 'FREE LUNCH'

Military link (RD104), Castell pencils, scoured leather, sapele mahogany. Frame: architectural replica of Tudor Gothic-style window from Trinity College Cambridge, 43 x 95 x 5 cm, 10.9kg, 2009

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'ECCE SADDAM'
Eglomise gilt mirror, charcoal on Hahenmühle paper, 115 x 85 x 6.5 CM, 2009

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'ECCE GEORGE'
Eglomise gilt mirror, charcoal on Hahenmühle paper, 115 x 85 x 6.5 CM, 2009

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'WE GO TO LIBERATE'. Colour etching on imperial paper, embossed with Braille warlord dialogues Twin Towers text (Chapter I), 66 x 76 x 5 cm, 2009

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'THE GUNDUSTER'. Bullpup Rifle (86S type), decomissioned and cerrtificate, duster, super 130, merino wool pinstripe, 40 x 100 x 30 cm, 2009

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Rose Issa projects, London 2009

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AL BRAITHWAITE: MUSEUM NO. 1 HIZBOLLAH’S CAVIAR

ROSE ISSA PROJECTS, LONDON
23 APRIL–16 MAY 2009

Al Braithwaite, the provocative young creator of Museum No. 1: Hizbollah’s Caviar, set out in 2002 with big ambitions: he wanted to bridge the gap opened by warfare using the common language of art and humanity. Having sold his possessions, he left London with an idealistic group of artists to live in the Middle East.

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