Begleitbroschüre zur künstlerischen Arbeit Florian Göttkes im Rahmen der Ausstellung "MOOD SWINGS – Über Stimmungspolitiken, Sentiment Data, Market Sentiments und andere Sentiment Agencies" im frei_raum Q21 exhibition space.

The photographs in Toppled show an array of attitudes towards the sculptures that expose differences between the cultures but also universally valid aspects of human relationships with carved representations. It becomes apparent, that even in our modern image culture, the ancient magical link between the person (Saddam) and his representation (statue) is still alive in the human psyche.