Suicide Statues!

A number of statues placed on the rooftops of buildings in Hong Kong as part of a public art project have been mistaken for people contemplating suicide, with two alarm calls to the police on Thursday.

The art installation project, Event Horizon, was created by British artist Antony Gormley and will be exhibited in Hong Kong from November 19 to May 18 next year. The art installation will feature thirty-one sculptures “mounted at both street level and building tops across Hong Kong’s Central and Western districts”, the British Council said. It is also reportedly “the largest and most prolific public art project ever installed in Hong Kong,” having secured support from both landlords and the government.