How an art work could literally save lives in Syria

The Danish art collective SUPERFLEX will unveil today (17 February) a new installation called Hospital Equipment, which consists of functioning surgical equipment that will be shipped to a Syrian hospital once the exhibition is over. The collective describe the work as a ready-made upside down, since we not only take a ready-made object into an art context, but we bring it back into the world again.The surgeons table, surgical tools and mobile lamp that form the work at the Von Bartha gall