BLOOMBERG NEWS
April 10, 2011
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| "Maportaliche" (2011) by Mustapha Benfodil |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The ruler of United Arab Emirates sheikhdom Sharjah fired the director of the Sharjah Biennial exhibition after work by Mustapha Benfodil, an Algerian artist was deemed offensive. "
Maportaliche," or "It Has No Importance," depicts a group of headless mannequins in soccer uniforms with Arabic words printed on their shirts. The exhibit included graffiti on nearby walls and a text entitled "Soliloquy of Cherifa," representing women who were raped by Islamists during
Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s, according to the Esprit de Babel blog, which carried a statement from Benfodil. [
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