Two new artworks have been selected to occupy the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2026 and 2028.
The second is made by Romanian-born artist Andra Ursuța: her statue Untitled will be installed in the famous space in central London in 2028.
The Fourth Plinth is one of the UK’s most important platforms for contemporary art.
Self’s work will be unveiled in 2026; Ursuța’s sculpture will stand on the plinth two years later.
Self’s piece, Lady in Blue, „pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman of colour who could be just one of many Londoners today”, according to a previous project statement. The work will be patinated with Lapis Lazuli blue.
Ursuța’s sculpture is a life-sized equestrian statue covered in a shroud and cast in slime-green resin. „The work points towards an uncertain future. It is made in a hyper-fragmented, paranoid time when public space, consensus and community continue to dissolve”, the project statement says.
In 2022, Ursuța presented a homage to an installation by the late Russian artist Ilya Kabakov at Art Basel (Vandal Lust, 2011/22).
