12th May 2016, The National Portrait Gallery, London

I was excited to find a group of contemporary portraits there. They were located in a tiny place, but still, they were there! First I walked through the impressive classical portraits from the last centuries. But only here, in this section, I felt that the art work is challenging me and not only to the artist him or herself. This portrait of Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights pressure group Liberty, made by Gillian Wearing, who placed this important activist/leader in one of the most established, cultural institutes of London. Maybe it is about time to give the floor to the more current, uprising leaders from the last century.