Pisa clay used for Cornelia Parker sculpture

The artist Cornelia Parker has today unveiled an installation at London's Royal Institution of British Architects, consisting of fragments of dry soil from the Leaning Tower of Pisa site.

The artist Cornelia Parker has today unveiled an installation at London's Royal Institution of British Architects, consisting of fragments of dry soil suspended to waist height from the floor: the desiccated clay was removed from beneath the Leaning Tower of Pisa in order to prevent its collapse during work directed by Professor Burland.

The work highlights many of the concerns inherent in Parker’s practice from iconographic objects, places and buildings to a fascination with Freudian psychoanalysis. - Royal Insitution of British Architects