The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist' by Michael Rakowitz b. 1973, New York. In 2006 Michael Rakowitz started his project The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist to recreate over 7,000 archaeological artefacts looted from the Iraq Museum during the war or destroyed elsewhere. One of these was the Lamassu, a winged deity. It guarded Nergal Gate at the entrance to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, near modern-day Mosul, Iraq, in c700 until 2015 when it was destroyed by ISIS. Unveiled 28 March 2018 by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, the Trafalgar Square, Fourth Plinth Programme

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