Dima Srouji ‘But She Still Wears Kohl and Smells Like Roses’ now until 24th September, the V&A, the contemporary glass landing, Room 131.
Forgeries, the female body, and wealthy English families: V&A Jameel Fellow, Dima Srouji unearths the history of Palestinian glassware in the museum’s collection
‘Flask for rose oils exhumed with lovers. Return to Bethlehem,’ reads a handwritten label. Threaded through by string, the label is tied next to a supposedly aged bulbous glass vessel.
