QUEEN VICTORIA // SILENT EMPERESS by Sophie Ernst 

In Silent Empress 2012, a public commission
for Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield, the artist Sophie Ernst
attached a sound tag to an existing statue of Queen Victoria. The sound
was a monologue emanating from a megaphone temporarily positioned in
front of the statue’s face. Comprising quotes from the journals and
letters of Queen Victoria, and extracts from speeches and texts by past
prime ministers (Blair, Brown, Cameron, Churchill, Gladstone), it
gestured towards an apology for Britain’s colonial past.

The statue spoke for 30 minutes before Wakefield Council decided it was ‘disrespectful’ and needed to come down.

https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-41-autumn-2017/opinion-hammad-nasar-british-indianness