Golden Siren, 2025
Jason deCaires Taylor
public intervention
Money is the invisible current that flows through every facet of modern life—shaping, distorting, and often corrupting. From oil giants accelerating climate collapse, to water companies contaminating rivers, to pharmaceutical conglomerates holding public health hostage, and venture capital draining the lifeblood from public services—capitalism’s shadow looms large. Sometimes brazen, sometimes insidiously concealed, its presence is inescapable.
Golden Siren proposes a series of provocative public interventions: life-sized sculptures of vultures rendered in black and gold, perched atop buildings and signage in locations emblematic of unchecked greed. These stark, gilded effigies—constructed from lightweight foam and polystyrene for safety—serve as both accusation and mirror. Everyone knows the system is broken. These sirens demand we stop pretending otherwise.
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About the Artist
Jason deCaires Taylor (b. 1974) is an award-winning sculptor, environmentalist, and professional underwater photographer. A graduate of the London Institute of Arts (1998), he gained international acclaim for creating the world’s first underwater sculpture park in Grenada and the first underwater art museum in Mexico. Over the past 20 years, he has installed more than 1,200 public sculptures across the world’s oceans. His works function as artificial reefs, fostering marine life and sparking dialogue between art, science, and conservation.
The works examine how sculpture can engage with ecological processes, evolving in response to endemic marine life, shifting light conditions, water viscosity, and alternative perspectives offered by the underwater realm. They engender an idea of regeneration and recovery, and implicate the viewer in the inevitability of change.
Taylor has been described as the Jacques Cousteau of the art world.
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