'MTF PRIESTESS CUTTING THE BONE TO REVEAL IT'S A LIE'
Installation, 2020
At BARDO
“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about
the past. How we tell these stories – triumphantly or
self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally – has a lot to
do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution
as human beings. ” Grace Lee Boggs
IN THE TERRITORY THAT ONCE WAS THE SOUTH OF MESOPOTAMIA,
ARCHEOLOGISTS HAVE UNCOVERED SIGNS OF AN ANCIENT CULTURE THAT WAS
NOT YET RECOGNIZED. THE REMAINS FOUND RESEMBLE THE SUMERIAN ARTEFACTS
THAT POPULATED THE DISCOVERIES ON THE TIGER-EUFRATES FLUVIAL AREA SOME
DECADES AGO.
THE MAIN PIECE FOUND IS A TABLET WITH SOME KIND OF CUNEIFORM WRITING. IT
IS DATED TO BE SOMEHOW BETWEEN THE PEAK OF THE NEOASSARIAN EMPIRE AND
THE FALL OF BABYLON, 539 A.C. ARCHEOLOGISTS ARE STILL TRYING TO REFINE THE
POSSIBLE DATES OF THE FINDINGS.
