Cambridge museum to honour final journeys of tragic Mediterranean migrants - with their clothes
Issam Kourbaj has created plaster casts based on clothing recovered from migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean
Adam Care
Cambridge University's Museum of Classical Archaeology, on Sigwick Avenue
An exhibition highlighting the Mediterranean refugee crisis is coming to a university museum.
Cambridge's Museum of Classical Archaeology is set to host Lost , by Cambridge-based artist Issam Kourbaj.
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It features plaster-dipped items belonging to refugees who were lost at sea while attempting the perilous journey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
One of Issam Kourbaj's plaster casts
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They will be displayed among the museum's collection of plaster cast sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome.
"Our plaster casts capture just the outer surface of classical sculptures, which express human emotion through carefully crafted representations of the human form," said curator Sophie Hawkins.
"With the pieces Issam has created for Lost , the original model is still encased within.
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"Issam explores the qualities of plaster as a medium for memorialisation and invites the audience to experience raw emotion through the absence of form."
Kourbaj has a background in fine art, architecture and theatre design.
Having trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, the Repin Institute of Fine Arts in Leningrad and at Wimbledon School of Art, he has been Cambridge-based since 1990.
Currently artist-in-residence and lector in art at Christ's College, he has most recently exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Penn Museum in America.
The exhibition runs from April 21 to June 9 at the university museum, which is based at the Sidgwick Site. Entry is free.