Trojan Squirrel – What Does It Mean for Alma-Ata Citizens?

A giant squirrel, which has seemingly walked out of movies about prehistoric animals, is a symbol of bad taste and poor aesthetic and artistic culture of the urban environment. This installation is completely nondescript in an artistic sense. It is a blown up shapeless ‘sack’, especially the lower part. Its size is too big even for Atakent’s area. It matches the surrounding architecture poorly. The squirrel’s massive size is oppressive even to the fair’s high arches, not unlike an elephant in a china shop – it is a real squirrelsaurus that is a height of a four story building and weighs 13 tonnes.

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