Evoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila conquered the African continent's first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of ...See moreEvoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila conquered the African continent's first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of colonialism, Fischer and el Sani have recontextualised amidst Rome's rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their "freedom of movement", also understood as the possibility of being welcomed in another country.
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