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Rhona Hoffman is pleased to present the gallery’s third solo exhibition with Michael Rakowitz. Continuing the artist’s ongoing project The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, the exhibition features a representation of the Northwest Palace of Nimrud’s Room Z, which was destroyed by ISIS in 2015. Also on view is the related video The Ballad of Special Ops Cody from 2017.

The gallery’s architecture has been transformed into the layout of Room Z in King Ashurnasirpal II’s 9th century BC palace (near present-day Mosul in northern Iraq), which stood uncovered as a powerful testament to the Assyrian …