Nathan Coley's A Place beyond Belief opened this month in Pristina. Mounted on 7-metre-high scaffolding with the text picked out in light bulbs, the sculpture sits in patch of scrubland between a library and a half-built, half-ruined orthodox church which is a reminder of Slobodan Milosevic's oppressive regime. The idea to locate the work in Kosovo's capital came from Petrit Selimi, the country's minister for foreign affairs. He says: "Sited by the church that Milsovic started to build, it stands as testimony not to religious belief, but the misuse of religious belief. It is also next to the library: between a beacon of hope and a beacon of destruction." Read more...
Image: Nathan Coley's A Place Beyond Belief in Pristina, Kosovo
