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      Germany: Artists build symbolic lifeboat for Med's migrant victims01:10

      Germany: Artists build symbolic lifeboat for Med's migrant victims

      Germany, Berlin
      Politics
      June 26, 2015 at 20:12 GMT +00:00 · Published

      The artist group Plastique Fantastique and Hadmut Bittiger have built a temporary monument -an oversized lifeboat - in remembrance of the deceased migrants and refugees who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, on the Tempelhof Field, Friday.

      The art installation focuses on the ongoing refugee crisis on the borders of Europe. Marco Canevacci explained the motivations for the piece, saying "I just want to make the thematic to be visible, I wasn't searching for the solution for it [the migrant crisis], I just want to play with the poetry to deal with this thematic, nothing more nothing less."

      The boat consists of translucent membrane and quotations from Homer's Odyssey can be heard inside the installation.

      Germany: Artists build symbolic lifeboat for Med's migrant victims01:10
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      The artist group Plastique Fantastique and Hadmut Bittiger have built a temporary monument -an oversized lifeboat - in remembrance of the deceased migrants and refugees who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, on the Tempelhof Field, Friday.

      The art installation focuses on the ongoing refugee crisis on the borders of Europe. Marco Canevacci explained the motivations for the piece, saying "I just want to make the thematic to be visible, I wasn't searching for the solution for it [the migrant crisis], I just want to play with the poetry to deal with this thematic, nothing more nothing less."

      The boat consists of translucent membrane and quotations from Homer's Odyssey can be heard inside the installation.

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