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FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

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Evoking the Olympic marathon in Rome 1960 in which Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won Africa’s first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and symbol of an Africa freeing itself from colonialism in the process, the artists have re-contextualized this amidst Rome’s controversial rationalist architecture as a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to 'freedom of movement'. Back to...