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Western Sahara

Western Sahara

The Trojan Horse of Sahara, the sculpture made from recycled materials and remains of weapons by the Mexican Rolando de la Rosa and carrying in their gut the various UN resolutions in favor of the Saharawi cause and the maximum of Benito Juarez: “Between individuals and among nations, respect the rights of others is peace “, will be moved against the wall. This event will be attended by the president of the SADR, Mohamed Abdelazar, the inhabitants of refugee camps in Tindouf and other media with the intention of giving the world the existence of Moroccan mining invisible wall, a monument to horror than 2,700 miles long that secretes two Western Sahara. ART VS bomb in the same week of the signing in Oslo for an international agreement to ban cluster bombs, the artists participating in this second edition of ARTifariti denounced his creations, made in some cases remnants of war, the threat of explosive devices encountered by the Saharawi people inhabiting the liberated territories and the areas near the wall of shame planted for more than three million landmines.

Land Mine Action NGO, responsible for bomb disposal work performed in Western Sahara released, Federico Guzman invited the artist to create a work for its headquarters in Tifariti. “The wall of shame” is the name of that building that works as a cry of denunciation of the situation and, in a didactic, as a catalog of the various types of existing pumps in the area. The main goal of this committed artist proposal Seville, which has declared the Saharawi people feel in love and involved with their case “to the end” is that children can recognize and not confuse them with deadly toys and mutilation.