Huma Bhabha’s Ghost of Humankindness (2011)
She uses the materials of our troubled era to create work that is resolutely, and resonantly, of our time.[1] Courtyard Sculpture Each year a sculpture is placed in the Annenburg Courtyard heralding the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition.[2] This year, 2023, Huma Bhabha’s Ghost of Humankindness (2011), may perhaps be inadvertently overlooked through elegantly blending into this capacious greige location. The sculpture stands offset before Alfred Drury’s garlanded, lofty statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was the first President of the Royal Academy founded in 1768.[3] As a sculptor, Drury was ‘always in search of the graceful, the…