The two bronze sculptures explore the use of the bust as a medium in today’s public art and question its purpose within a politically unstable and globalized society. Should a bust be used to commemorate the post-modern figure in a society of control?
Historically, the bust is mostly used to portray and glorify figures of great importance, individuals who had a mostly positive impact within a society. But is there space for figures who had an ambiguous or negative impact? Does society have an obligation to remember its own oppressors, in the same way heroes and liberators were immortalized with the use of such medium?
What would the bust of today look like?
