ABU JAFAR - WHITE LETTER 2002

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On Wednesday, August 14 at Trafalgar Square London UK, Abu Jafar installed a work 50 meters long and 1.5 meters wide containing letters, white fabric, and green leaves. The artist writes by email that "During this exhibition, London Authority ban Jafar as a Muslim artists not to use WAR & IRAQ in his art work at Trafalgar Sq, London UK. And only two hours for to hand out the information about the Installation to the public from 6pm -8pm even though this Installation take place for exhibition around 2pm."

He describes the work, WHITE LETTER 2002, in this way:

"It was a statement of the current conflicting world that we live in, where millions of people are killed by the actions of a few and some of them are going to kill more and more.... We want peace not war and no killing of any human....We the peace loving people do not like to see any inhuman UN embargo on any country. War and Embargo both are crimes against humanity. This work is for peace and friendship... It is white, green, black and silver with 50 meters silent open space under the sky to take the message around by the summer breeze to the people
... Peace! Peace!! Peace !!!"

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