KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO
Edinburgh Projections

August 1988

Onto six of the columns of the unfinished copy of the Parthenon at Carlton Hill in Edinburgh, Wodiczko projected images that represented the disenfranchised of the city. Personifications of homelessness, single parenthood, unemployment, alcoholism and drug addiction loomed over the city. The text “Morituri te Salutant” (those who are about to die salute you) was projected onto the lintel above. Across the hill the face of Margaret Thatcher and the words “Pax Brittanica” were projected onto the dome of the observatory.