STATEMENT:Marc Quinn sculpture of a Black Lives Matter activist was erected then removed in 24hr

After the COVID-19 pandemic with 602,657 fatal cases till now and all the decisive events (social, politic and financial) that occurred, because this era we are all more connected than ever, the way I see everything changed therefore my approach to art. Thus, images that in March may seemed too provocative to comment on today seem inferior to the circumstances. The murders of George Floyd’s on May 25, 2020 and  Rayshard Brooks  on 16/6/2020 (the last in a long series of police assassinations)  was one of the events that shook me. It affected deeply because while we have conquered everything, in our base we remain at the mercy of a past, where people were divided into free and slaves, just like in Ancient Egypt, Greece or Rome… So, a series of questions arises: Is migration and the unaccompanied children, the new face of the slave trade(?) If a kid is unprotected and hungry, will work from the age of 9 or 10 for a slice of bread(?) All those thought that  All these thoughts that haunted me so long, causing me the anxiety of what is to come in a socio-political situation that seems to have no end…came to seal the following image and newσ: Contractors removed the statue “A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)” (2020) by artist Marc Quinn, which had been installed on the site of the fallen statue of the slave trader Edward Colston, in Bristol, England, Thursday, July 16, 2020. The sculpture of protester Jen Reid was installed without the knowledge or consent of Bristol City Council and was removed by the council 24 hours later  described as the work and decision of a London-based artist, who did not have the permission or support of the people of the city and it would be held in their museum “for the artist to collect or donate to our collection”.-Efi Michalarou