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© Lars Müller ‘Bauhaus Journals 1926 – 1931’, edited and published Lars Müller Publishers in collaboration with Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung.
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The images are captivating. They show smiling children playing on pink seesaws across the crude brown wall at the US/Mexican border.
The interactive installation went up on 28 July 2019 and lasted just 40 minutes before border guards ordered its removal. Then the pictures went viral.
Now the ‘Teeter-Totter Wall’ by Californian architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello has won the prestigious Beazley Designs of the Year 2020 in London Design Museum’s annual competition.
Take a closer look at this brilliant act of political art here
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