The invisible enemy should not exist—Iraqi American artist Michael Rakowitz’s response to the looting of artefacts from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad in 2003—gestures to the ephemerality of museum objects and obliteration of cultural heritage. Gathering information about the destroyed artefacts from Interpol’s website as well as the database of University of Chicago Oriental Institute, Rakowitz created scaled papier-mâché́ replicas using ‘Middle Eastern’ food packaging in the US and Arabic newspapers—thus turning detritus into anti-monumental artefacts. Rakowitz’s ongoing project serves as a memorial for the lost objects, and highlights their transient history through the use of disposable materials. A series of episodic drawings punctuate the installation and uncover the story of Dr Donny George, who tirelessly recovered looted artefacts. A version of the Deep Purple song Smoke on the Water was recorded specially for the project by the New York-based Arabic-music band Ayyoub.