Summary • Climate activists from Greenpeace installed Anish Kapoor's “BUTCHERED” on a Shell gas rig in the North Sea • The piece references the violence, loss and destruction wrought on by titanic oil and gas extraction initiatives and corporations

Activists from the climate organization Greenpeace have unveiled a new artwork by Anish Kapoor on a Shell gas platform in the North Sea. Titled “BUTCHERED,” the artwork arrives as the UK records its fourth heatwave of the summer, and in the words of Kapoor, is “a reference to the destruction – the bleeding – of our globe of our state, of being.”

On the morning of August 13, seven Greenpeace members scaled Shell's Skiff platform, located 45 nautical miles off the coast of Norfolk before mounting a 12-by-8 meter canvas to the side of the rig

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