Installation view at Ateneum Museum of Modern Art (2018)
Detail
In the 1990s, the Iraqi regime, employed a disturbing practice of punishing the national football team for international losses. The players were forced to wear iron masks as a penalty for their perceived poor performance, even though losing itself was already a form of punishment. Despite recreating these iron masks using Pyrex-glass material, and despite the vulnerable and fragile nature of the new masks, they continued to symbolize haunting fear.
Five Pyrex-glass based sculptures / Dimensions vary.
The artwork was sponsored & Manufactured by Berengo Studio, Venice.