In an introduction to the exhibit, curator Joshua Simon said the artwork enabled those viewing it to "rethink the political"."Sharon's still breathing and beating body is an allegory for the Israeli political body - a dependent and mediated existence, self-perpetuated artificially and out of inertia, with open eyes that cannot see," he said.
| As a description of the 'Israeli political body', this observation is both contemptuous and questionable; as a description of the state of the professional artistic community today, it would have been perfect. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate for the sculpture to have a likeness of the artist's head on the body. |