Tin Soldiers by Ala Younis

Kuwait artist Ala Younis brings her Tin Soldiers installation to the Istanbul Art Bienalle 2011 – an art exhibit that explores the relationship between art and politics, presenting works that are both formally innovative and politically outspoken. Tin Soldiers is an installation which depicts the nine armies that were implicated in, or subject to, acts of war in today’s Middle East. They are hand painted to represent the military outfits of Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey. The soldiers were produced in numbers proportional to those of active troops in 2010, making for a total of 12,235 toy soldiers at a scale of 1:200.

Source: designboom