Issam Khourbaj, Another Day Lost: 1579 and Counting.., Mixed-Media Installation, 2015.
ISSAM KHOURBAJ
Issam comes from a background of fine art, architecture and theatre design. He was born in Syria and trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, the Repin Institute of Fine Arts & Architecture in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and at Wimbledon School of Art (London). Since 1990, he has lived and worked in Cambridge, eventually becoming an Artist in Residence at Christ’s College and a Bye-Fellow (2007-2011), where he is now the Lector in Art. His work explores the destruction and refabrication of Syrian cultural heritage.
Issam brought the eighth edition of his series of installations, Another Day Lost, to Twelve Gates