Vinyl text:  

HS3  

Green Marble Crescent Crowning the Top of a 9th Century Dome 

Crescent believed to have been added to the dome upon the city’s conquest. 

The Regional Museum of Arts and Culture Collection 

Marble  

69 x 66 inches 

 A.D. 813 (dome) / A.D. 1225 (crescent) 

Heritage Studies #3 forms part of Iman Issa’s series ‘Heritage Studies’ (2015–ongoing), in which the artist continues to explore the tension between recognition and interpretation, deliberately privileging openness over resolution. Rather than offering fixed meanings or definitive statements, the works invite sustained reflection. In this piece, a golden crescent is presented alongside a vinyl text describing a ‘green crescent’, producing a subtle dissonance between object and description. This divergence destabilises expectations and encourages viewers to question how meaning is mediated through display.