"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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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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