During the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraq's National Museum was looted and around 15,000 objects were stolen. The art project The invisible enemy should not exist by artist Michael Rakowitz is an ongoing work in reconstructing the over 7000 objects that are still missing.

In the mini-exhibition BeLonging at the Mediterranean Museum, eight of Rakowitz's works are now shown in dialogue with archaeological objects from Mesopotamia from the collections of the World Culture Museums.

Together they reflect common experiences of place, longing and belonging. In the past and the present ," says curator Ninhursag Tadaros, who is doing the exhibition as part of his degree project on the Master's program in Curating Art, Stockholm University.

Alluding to the sometimes hidden origins of antiquities and refugees, Rakowitz creates the sculptures of Middle Eastern Arabic and Assyrian Arabic and Assyrian food packaging and news articles found in the United States. The works of art thus give shape both to the ancient objects and to the people who created and cared for them.

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