Bending Figure in Whitworth Park
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Bending Figure in Whitworth Park
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 15 Jul 2018
‘Bending Figure’, one of Raqs Media Collective’s ‘Coronation Park’ sculptures, was installed in the park in 2017 as part of the Whitworth Art Gallery’s “Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language” exhibition which ran between on 30 September 2017 and 25 February 2018. The sculpture includes quotations from George Orwell’s "Shooting an Elephant" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_Elephant .
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Image Location
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53.460075
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-2.230696