"We are giving faces to them all," she said of the work, which was also designed to be a collective artistic hug for murdered trans singer and retired s*x worker Karla La Borrada, who lost her life at the age of 67 in 2016.
Mexican artist Teresa Margolles
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The Guardian Art Review: 4 Stars!
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.
But this is by no means an instantly readable political artwork you praise or condemn in a tweet.
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fricking whatever at this point
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Chin up Bong! It's not completely over! It's still legal to debate the propriety of e-bikes!!
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They need to ban these things, they are horrible.
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Debates or e-bikes?
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Bongs idealy
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Its ugly, so I condemn it.
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That's fricking foul
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Culture war aside, this is gross and really fricking r-slurred
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I mean a wall of deathmask faces is kinda cool
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Kickass wall of Aztec skulls says "Trans Rights!"
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Imagine conquering the world at one point and now being so obsessed with your bastard child and their culture war happenings that you put up monuments to stuff that happens in the country next to their country
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It won't be up for long. This is the guest corner of Trafalgar Square that changes every couple of months.
You never hear about the installations that are actually good.
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Then this is okay. The art community is increasingly insular and cultish and so the only way to get attention is to be stupid.
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True, I've never heard of that corner before
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Also "TERF central for decades:
Post-truth movement where reality is anything you say.
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R-slurred lmao
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"These people are all alive, but for how long?"
Hopefully they'll clear it out as soon as possible to make way for this statue of a fat Black woman with a big butt
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BIPOCs unironically have the worst fricking modern art. I hate their little corners in art museums.
The Latinx and Ricecel artists at least have an interesting aesthetic in design choice. The African American is just borderline racist caricatures of themselves that if you told me the daughter of a KKK Klansman made it then I would be like "Oh thats why it looks like so fricking racist"
Except the trash collages. Those are interesting because its usually trash from their corner of the world so thats at least culturally and capitalistically interesting. There was this Vietnamese trash art that I thought was pretty cool because it incorporated banana leaves and bamboo so you knew the thing had a time-limit before it literally falls apart.
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So boyfriend is a bit of a rightoid.
We went to an art museum and we ended up in thaaaat section. 
Anyways, he sees me cringing at the 
artwork 
and mutters "BIPOC art." 
We also called all the mayo stupid art 
stupid and made fun of it juuuust loud enough to piss off the pretentious fricks taking it seriously. 
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Going all in on the "serial killer that wears his victim's face as mask" vibe I see.
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Very trans affirming tbqh
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Yeah he looks like a Teresa
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Snapshots:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/trafalgar-square-transgender-art-installation-fourth-plinth-b2614778.html:
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the fourth plinth is always used for stuff like this, it is a plinth for a rotating selection of cringey modern art displays. before this it had whipped cream on it to represent death or something
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Next month: Toby Fox lives up their covered in bath foam to prolong development of next DELTARUNE update
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UK?
I HATE GLOBALISTS I HATE GLOBALISTS I HATE GLOBALISTS
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Should have been dirty panties not a mask
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When are they making a monument to the independent judiciary that got murdered in Mexico
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GeNdEr VaRiAnT p:
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