An Ability to Both Create and Destroy

2016 - Installation (Installation)

Approx: 2500 x 2500 cm.

Beto Shwafaty


Beto Shwafaty produces installations, videos and sculptural objects. He is interested in how historical episodes pervade in objects, spaces, and sociocultural structures.


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