Overview
- Chilean-born artist Nicolás Miranda briefly placed caricatured figures in the Oval Office diorama, then removed them after photographing and filming the scene.
- The setup featured Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as Chucky, Javier Milei as a dachshund-like lap dog, and miniature rodents with the faces of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and Santiago Abascal beside wax figures of Donald and Melania Trump and Barack Obama.
- Miranda said the action, titled Child’s Play, denounced international passivity toward Gaza and critiqued what he called contemporary Western decadence.
- The museum stated the intervention occurred without consent or coordination, stressed the figures were not its property, and reaffirmed a nonpartisan curatorial focus.
- The artist described advance planning—surveying cameras, entering with backpacks and a small team—framing the work as an intentionally ephemeral act whose only lasting record is the photo and video he posted online; he has a record of similar actions, including a 2023 Madrid intervention.