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Neumann Wolfson Art is pleased to present Ozymandias, a group show which features work
by Nina Chanel Abney, Michael van den Besselaar, Michael Bevilacqua, James Busby, Mark
Flood, Justine Neuberger, Irina Jasnowski Pascual, Christian Schumann and Matthew
Weinstein. This exhibition engages with the exploration of transience and power in the
eponymous sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Shelley wrote Ozymandias in the early 19th century, a time of renewed western interest in
Egypt as a result of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Victorian era fascination with Ancient
Egyptian artifacts and culture …