On July 1, 2021, the contemporary art platform “Harabel” presented a sculpture by the Kosovar artist Sislej Xhafa, entitled Bleta (“Bee”), at the Sharra landfill, the municipal waste disposal site of the Municipality of Tirana. Xhafa’s sculpture was supposed to be the first of a series of public artworks that would transform this “private property” into a “contemporary art sculpture park.” Historically, the Sharra landfill is where on August 7, 2016, an excavator crushed 17-year-old Ardit Gjoklaj, who was illegally employed by a waste management plant at the landfill operated by 3R, a Beijing-based company owned by a SP functionary.
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