Terence Koh installation withdrawn

An installation by artist Terence Koh, titled Medusa, has been withdrawn before the opening of a Saatchi Gallery exhibition in London. Medusa was due to be part of the group show, USA Today, though Charles Saatchi has announced that, due to limitations of space, it will not be included.

Saatchi is not usually afraid of controversy, and Koh's work has attracted extensive publicity for the new show, though it does seem that Saatchi is concerned about the potential consequences of showing Koh's work. The installation features statuettes of Jesus and Mary, each with enormous, erect phalli, posed next to a urinal.

Koh also included a statuette of a tumescent Jesus in his installation Gone Yet Still last year. Equally provocative images appeared in The Insurgent magazine earlier this year.