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May 06, 2024
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Photo by Ataol Kaso.

On July 1, 2021, contemporary art platform Harabel presented a bronze sculpture of Kosovar artist Sislej Xhafa, entitled Bleta (“The Bee”), on the Sharra landfill, the municipal waste deposit site of the municipality of Tirana. Xhafa’s schulpture was supposed to be the first of a series of public artworks that would transform this “p…

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