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Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth artwork unveiled with masks of 726 trans and gender variant people. Dedicated to a trans prostitute murdered in Mexico

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/trafalgar-square-transgender-art-installation-fourth-plinth-b2614778.html

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1726820086149771.webp

"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

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17268200864758143.webp

/r/transgenderUK discuss: https://old.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1fjsucq/londons_fourth_plinth_artwork_aims_to_unite_trans/

The Guardian Art Review: 4 Stars!

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/18/teresa-margolles-fourth-plinth-review-transgender

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.

:#marseyclueless:

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>masks are all of living people

:marseyfacepalm:What a cop-out. What am I even supposed to take from this?

"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 :marseythebuilder:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17268459410178428.webp

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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. :marseyhomohitler: We went to an art museum and we ended up in thaaaat section. :dasrite: Anyways, he sees me cringing at the :marseyairquotes: artwork :marseyairquotes: and mutters "BIPOC art." :marseydarkxd: We also called all the mayo stupid art :marseyminimalism: stupid and made fun of it juuuust loud enough to piss off the pretentious fricks taking it seriously. :marseylaughpoundfist:

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