However, Nkoulou may well be swayed by the prospect
of joining Inter, who are currently leading Serie A, have the division's best
defence and, in Roberto Mancini, boast a manager who knows how to see
out a title
race.
As it turned
out, Melgaard tried playing both the «art as critique» and the identity - politics card in his
defence: in a joint statement issued with his dealer Gavin Brown, the artist declared that the sculpture existed «to destabilize and unhinge our hardened and crusty notions
of race and sex and power.