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M2: World's Largest Graffiti

Santiago Sierra

Abstract

In October 2012 the letters “S.O.S.” were carved into the ground of Western Sahara/Algeria near the Sahrawi refugee camp Smara in collaboration with Sahrawi and the Frente Polisario. The graffiti measures 5 km x 1,7 km, which makes it the largest graffiti in the world. The piece refers to the Sahrawi people’s struggle for independence from Moroccan rule in the almost forgotten West Sahara conflict. For 36 years they have lived in makeshift conditions under the provisional arrangement of the refugee camps in the Sahara desert, south east of Tindouf.

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Hrčak ID:

185558

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185558

Publication date:

1.7.2015.

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