Statue Of Fat Black Woman Chosen To Adorn London's Fourth Plinth

A statue of a fat black woman which “pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman of colour” will feature on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth in London from 2026 onwards, an announcement that was met with widespread derision.

The Fourth Plinth has become infamous for displaying vulgar modern art, although it is also now reliably used to push different variations of “the message”.

The statue is called Lady in Blue and according to the artist, Tschabalala Self, “pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman of colour who could be just one of many Londoners today.”

Self previously described the nature of her ‘art’ in precisely the kind of pretentious, obscurantist babble you would expecting, saying it serves to “embrace and confound collective fantasies and assumptions surrounding the Black female body,” whatever that means.

Meanwhile, the ‘art’ that will adorn the Fourth Plinth from 2028 onwards is almost equally as bad.

Created by Romanian ‘artist’ Andra Ursuta, “The work points towards an uncertain future. It is made in a hyper-fragmented, paranoid time when public space, consensus and community continue to dissolve.”

It’s basically a green blob.

Respondents on X weren’t very impressed.

As we previously highlighted, London Mayor Sadiq Khan effectively blocked the placing of a statue of the late Queen Elizabeth in Trafalgar Square by green lighting an installation comprising of ‘transgender faces’ instead.

The ‘woke art’ consists of 850 faces of trans people who were mostly prostitutes. It will occupy the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square for 6 months, and then be replaced by the fat black woman and the green blob.

The transgender faces installation, which will feature “marginalised sex workers,” got the go ahead despite just 23 per cent of Londoners approving it and 43 per cent saying they disliked it in a YouGov poll.

The ‘art work’ cost a total of £170,000 – all of it covered by the taxpayer.

Meanwhile, as we discuss below, actual works of art, namely paintings of the English countryside from 200 years ago by people like John Constable, are now being given trigger warnings by museums because they may evoke a “darker side” and stir “nationalist feelings”.

When will it ever end?

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