Agora by Magdalena Abakanowicz

Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois is the location of a large set of sculptures entitled “Agora” by Magdaelna Abakanowicz, from Warsaw, Poland. There are 106 headless torsos that are larger than life size. Abakanowicz was born in 1930 and was affected by World War II and the aftermath says she grew up “. . . in times which were extraordinary by their various forms of collective hate and collective adulation. Marches and parades worshipped leaders, great and good, who soon turned out to be mass murderers. I was obsessed by the image of the crowd. . . I suspected that under the human skull, instincts and emotions overpower the intellect without us being aware of it.” https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicartagora.html