‘Victoria Terminus’ is the exact replica of the plinth where the sculpture of the Empress of India, Queen Victoria, stood. It is made out of jesmonite and painted with Chili, a vibrant spice with a prominent smell that is spicy and intolerable when consumed in great amounts, representing pain and violence. Plinths throughout history have glorified important people in power but when the same plinth is snatched of its royal person, it recontextualizes public monuments. This absence is highlighted through the presence of a spotlight just above the plinth. The act of removal, the vacuum, acts as a space of active protest. It challenges the language of monuments themselves. The fact that they do not represent the history of power and domination but rather subverts the same notion through the absence of presence. 

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