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Art Attack: When human brutality becomes art

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If I said that a German artist was about to stage an exhibition using Jewish people as live models to recreate scenes from the Holocaust, I am sure even the thought would be abhorrent to most ordinary folk. I am also confident that the thought would never be attempted or accepted as a work of art. And yet if we swap the German artist for a White South African and replace the Jews with Black people, that is exactly what is about to happen in London in 2014, thanks to the Barbican Centre. Protesters gather at the Barbican Centre © MisBeee Writes The artist is Brett Bailey - a man who has never shied away from portraying the brutality Black people endured under oppression as art. Exhibits include a bare-chested Black woman donning a metal dog collar in a bedroom scene. The depiction harking back to the sexual enslavement of African women who were kidnapped, starved and then raped in exchange for food by their colonial masters. Human Zoo The exhibition has