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"On April 11th 2002, 500 volunteers were called in order to form a line to move a sand dune situated in the surroundings of the city of Lima. This human comb progressed pushing forward a certain quantity of sand with shovels in order to move the dune from its original position. The actual displacement was of an infinitesimal proportion, but not its metaphorical resonance. "

I don't respond as much to the more theoretical works on paper, but his art dramatizing boundaries and spaces – painting the green line between Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan; pushing a block of ice through Mexico City – are direct, absurdist, and through provoking.