“Habibi” for the masses
Measuring 17 feet long, “Habibi” (meaning “dear” or “beloved”) was constructed by Algerian-born French Artist, Adel Abdessemed.
Shown in a way much like the dinosaur exhibits in a natural history museum, Habibi is a self portrait of the artist’s bone structure? Well, it is meant to be a self portrait anyway.
I can’t find too many images of it online, but you can find a few here and here to get some better perspective of size.
I also found a biography of Adel with this quote.
Abdessemed is an international and manifold artist, heroic like Ulysses. Each one of his works is a resolution, on the scale of both an aesthetic experience and a political proposition.
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