Kader Attia, Ghost (2007).
The magnum opus of Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, the new show at Saatchi Gallery. From behind you see a group of Muslim women knelt in prayer, but when you walk in front of them it’s revealed that the aluminum figures are actually empty shells. EDIT: Given the artist’s Algerian nationality, the work probably references the fate of female schoolteachers and doctors who were murdered by Islamists during the Algerian Civil War in the ’90s.
