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A Pillar of Shame was set up in Hong Kong on 4^th June 1997. This event marked the initiation of an art manifestation that is now spreading over the Planet. Over the next ten years a Pillar of Shame will be mounted about once a year as a memorial of a severe infringement against humanity. The Pillar is an original dark sculpture eight metres in height depicting more than 50 painfully twisted human bodies.

THE PILLAR OF SHAME

- a Sculptural Outcry

The Pillar of Shame represents a good deal of money: the only symbol which really commands global respect. Monuments of this calibre are normally set up in memory of ‘heroic’ deeds.

However, here the sculpture is mounted to serve as a continual reminder of a shameful act which must never reoccur. The Pillar of Shame is a kind of Nobel Prize of Injustice.