The late American artist Dennis Oppenheim debuted this sculpture at the Vancouver Biennale art fair in 1997, pointing out that "Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven." Curbed National has more on the so-called "Device to Root Out Evil." [Curbed National]
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