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Evening Standard
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William Mata

Metropolitan Police break into Soho gallery Laz Emporium to find ‘distressed woman’ is art installation

‘Kristina’ is named and modelled after the sister of gallery owner Steve Lazarides, who is also called Kristina

(Picture: Laz Emporium)

Police officers broke down the doors of an art gallery owned by Banksy’s former agent to help a woman slumped over a table - to find it was a work of art.

The Met took a distress call on November 25 and rushed to Laz Emporium in Soho where they saw what looked like an unconscious woman.

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