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Pillar of Shame

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Pillar of Shame

Pillar of Shame is a series of sculptures by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt memorialising the loss of life during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, China, committed by the Chinese Communist Party. Each sculpture is an eight metres (26 ft) tall statue of bronze, copper or concrete. The fir

st sculpture was inaugurated at the NGO Forum of the FAO summit in Rome, Italy in 1996. Since then three other pillars have been erected, in Victoria Park, Hong Kong; Acteal, Mexico; and Brasília, Brazil. A fifth in Berlin, Germany, was planned for completion in 2002, but the plan did not come to fruition due to funding issues, although a replica was publicly displayed for a month in 2023.

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