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The London police rush into the gallery to save a woman, but it was a... sculpture

2022-12-14 19:30:06Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The London police rush into the gallery to save a woman, but it was a...
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Police have raided a London gallery owned by Banksy's former agent, Steve Lazarides. Their intervention was triggered by a hyper-realistic sculpture that the agents mistook for a woman in critical condition.

The work entitled "Kristina" (2022), by the American artist Mark Jenkins, actually depicts a casually dressed woman slumped on a table, her head resting on the surface and her hands resting on her legs.

The incident happened on November 25 when London's Metropolitan Police received a call at 5:32 p.m. An apparently unconscious person was reported inside Laz Emporium, the gallery on Lexington Street in Soho opened by Steve Lazarides in October 2021. The gallery doors were closed and the woman was not 'responsive' to requests.

About 20 minutes later, officers forced down the door and entered the gallery, where they discovered the person was actually an installation. But in the end, the police responded to what appeared to be an emergency, an emergency created by the work itself, provocative and intended to deceive the eyes and senses of the viewer.

The raid caught the attention of (and probably frightened) the gallery assistant, who at the time had gone upstairs to make a cup of tea. For safety, he had closed the gallery. He returned to the showroom to find the equally confused officers who had just taken the door off its hinges. Their guess was that the woman, who was reported by passersby as motionless for the past few hours, had either suffered a heart attack or overdosed. Thankfully, none of these.

"Kristina" was commissioned by Lazarides himself, who wanted a portrait of his sister. The life-size artwork is made with packing tape filled with foam and represents the woman with messy hair, a yellow hoodie and sneakers. Of course, the goal of art is to provoke, and apparently it succeeded.

The work will be in the gallery until December 24, 2022, it is not for sale at the moment. But if the gallery were to sell it, it would fetch around £18,000 ($22,065).

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