The refugee list's destruction in Liverpool has a chilling significance

The list of dead migrants demands nothing from passersby apart from compassion. Its defacement is proof that art has become a political battleground Download a PDF of the List here This summer, the Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu installed on the streets of Liverpool the latest version of a project that has obsessed her for years. It is not a work of art, but a work of activism: a list of all the people who are known to have died attempting to travel to Europe to make a new life. She stumbled on...