Michael Rakowitz

2018 The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist by Michael Rakowitz
 

The Iraqi-American ar/st Michael Rakowitz at the unveiling of The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist on the fourth plinth. Photograph: Jack Taylor/GeKy Images Rakowitz has agreed to donate the work to Tate Modern if it can share custody of it with Iraq. He said: “Because of all the upheaval with Iraqi governments, there hasn’t been any opportunity to finalise the terms yet. Having pieces siZng in storage is always a bummer, but most museum collecDons are always in storage. The one thing I didn’t want to see happen with it was for it to disappear into a private collecDon.”