Hundreds of plaster casts of transgender and non-binary people have been unveiled as the latest installation on the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth in central London. pic.twitter.com/2f1urKTP6v
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The UK erected a Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square recognising 726 Trans-persons.
What and you don’t think there is a an agenda? pic.twitter.com/mc2EV4ase1
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Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth has gone 'woke' after artwork depicting the faces of hundreds of transgender and non-binary people was unveiled.
Julia Hartley-Brewer: "It looks awful… every single aspect of this artwork is wrong."@JuliaHB1 pic.twitter.com/ShFuAmnpRP
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Teresa Margolles’s fourth plinth review – haunting rack
of faces memorialises transgender victims of violence
Look up at the latest fourth plinth sculpture and you’ll see ranks of human faces floating in the sky. They are concave receptacles of shadows – and they look so fragile. These inside-out life masks cast in plaster seem destined to be ruined by rain, pollution and pigeon droppings. The artist wants it that way.
Teresa Margolles, from Mexico, is former forensic pathologist who often makes art using the physical traces of the deceased, especially victims of murder. Her sculpture for the fourth plinth takes its form from a gruesome Aztec masterpiece, a 15th-century tower of skulls known as the Huey Tzompantli that was excavated in Mexico City. More than 600 skulls have been found cemented into it, a spectacular reminder of Aztec power and ferocity.
h/t Truther Speaks