The Albanian Mechanism

The Albanian Mechanism

How to Launder Art and Money through Waste Management Concessions

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Vincent Yūsui van Gerven Oei
May 06, 2024
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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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