The centerpiece of Ozymandias—the ancient Greek name for Ramesses II—is If I was a…but then again, a one-ton, set of eighteen white slabs, each humanly scaled and evenly distributed throughout the main gallery. Vieira’s work invites quick assumptions about its rough-hewn construction. Passing through this formerly unified mass allows the viewer a closer inspection of each monolith’s variously poured, sawed, and incised surfaces, a record of their own making.
