Oh My God!
52 500 kr
Includes 5% art tax

maria sundby
Artist · Oslo, Norge
| Size | 60 × 180 × 40 cm |
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| Year | 2010 |
Paper skeleton folded of The Bible, The Coran and Tanakh. 1/1 Human size (180 cm long) Judaism, Christianity and Islam are known ad the three Monolithic Religions world wide. As a social identity anchored in a system of guiding beliefs and symbols, religion ought to serve a uniquely powerful function in shaping psychological and social processes. Religious identification offers a distinctive "sacred" worldview and "eternal" group membership, unmatched by identification with other social groups. The belief in God has persistently led to war throughout the whole history of humanity. From the earliest of times up to the very present, mankind has experienced countless armed conflicts that took place in the name of God. There have been more than a million wars over the last 100,000 years and practically all of them were directly or indirectly the result of religion. The sculpture Oh My God! is not a statement against religion, but is meant as a reminder of all the victims who ended their lives as a result of the religious armed conflicts. Oh My God! Has been shown at GAD (2010) And Moscow Museum of Art (2012)