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Portrait of a sculptor |
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A sculpture installation set up in 1998 in co -operation with the Rehabilitation Cen tre for Torture Victims, an insti tu tion trea ting every year about 100 per sons seriously damaged by torture. The installation consists of four parts: two ‘specimen tubes’ with hyper-natu ra li stic pre sentations of tortured human bodies and two 5 metre high columns of cop per with a surface in which painfully dis tor ted faces are embedded. |
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The two parts of the installation are an ex pression of duality: the columns re flect the inner pain, the shattered soul - the bo dies ‘in spirits’ are an expres sion of the ex treme objectification of the in di vi du al, an ob jec ti fi cation and a de gra da tion cha rac te ri stic of the cyni cism of torture aiming at the very anni hi la tion of the iden ti ty, self esteem and soul of the victim. |