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an unusual exhibition was hosted in the President's Gallery of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. It was titled Ode to the Sea. The exhibits consisted of paintings, sculptures and handicrafts created by 'enemy combatants', namely, current and former detainees at the US military camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Most of the artists were detained for over ten years for their association with Al-Qaeda and bin Laden, or their involvement in the 9/11 bombings. The works were truly beautiful. They included Muhammed Ansi's eye crying over a stormy blue sea; Moath Alwi's model ships made of garbage; and Sabri al Qurashi's landscapes. A section on 'how and why was art made' (featuring examples of the difficulties associated with the practice of art in the camp and the lack of tools and supplies) was also part of the exhibition space. 1 The decision to exhibit artworks made by prisoners from Guantánamo was largely seen as a pathway to better understand and prevent terrorism. Erin Thompson, the art crime professor who co-curated the event stated that '[she] firmly believe[s] that to prevent terrorism we need to understand the minds of terrorists and the minds of people wrongly ac

Author

Eleni Polymenopoulou

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108928427

Subjects

Law