In his new exhibition Suspended States at London's Serpentine Gallery, artist Yinka Shonibare looks at the impact of imperial ambition.
Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and Sir Charles Napier statues are dressed to impress in Dutch wax fabrics but stripped of their bronze, marble and their power. An intention of Turner Prize-nominated artist Yinka Shonibare, who says we should question colonial history - not topple it. He told Sky News: 'I personally don't think that, you know, you should be pulling statues down.
Another is titled Gaza War, but Shonibare says he's not taking sides or speaking on contemporaneous issues specifically. Instead he's trying to show history repeating itself. 'The idea there is to remind people that we've actually been here before, and we keep having these peace treaties. Why do we, as human beings, why do we keep doing that? 'It's a question we need to ask ourselves.
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