Lihidheb
Mohsen, is a postman, fond of books and nature. Since 1993, when he was 40
years old, he began this ecologic action, caring about cleaning beaches, and
also of human ecology consisting in the migration through the sea to Italy.
Active in all directions, he made also many configurations, poems, pictures and
documentary films, to sensibilize the public and the decision makers in both
borders. For the purpose, he made a huge ecologic museum, big artistic
installations in the salt lakes around the city and got a Guinness record 2002
in the matter of cleaning. He found 65
sea bottles and got the visit of thousands of schoolboys for free. He went also
to read his poetry and make installations with students in the school yards.
With the museum, he finished also a library in four languages and a lithothec. This installation is a support to an
international solidarity movement, engaged and serious. It is composed of
objects coming from the sea. Bowles, bottles, and a part of the 4000 shoes of
migrants, all carrying through there parcours the memory and a slight of moving
life, of those lost in the waters. Each shoe, have a story, have a memory, have
a life, that he tried to save from collective forgetting. The sea memory
action, Zarzis, Tunisia, remains, in its activities, for nature and humans.
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