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"Enough is Enough" is a public art work by the artist Alban Muja, which arises from the statement made by President George Bush during his visit to Tirana in 2007.

The first of its kind for the contemporary artist Alban Muja, this work is an iron sculpture which, like a bridge, connects the two banks of the Lana River, in one of the most urban areas of the capital. The work, which is more than an installation, is actually a sculpture, consisting of the letters forming the phrase "Enough Is Enough", is about 15 meters long and each letter 1.8 meters high. Despite this, it carries a discreet monumentality, since it is not visible from the roads on both sides of the river it connects, but can only be seen by passers-by on the bridges nearby, or by those who seek to see it among the vegetation that surrounds it. . This placement is certainly intentional: the joining of the two coasts is a rhetorical gesture, but a parallelism that responds to the truth of two countries connected forever; on the other hand, the almost hidden placement of a monument of such large dimensions calls out again another great truth: that of the Albanian hospitality of the exodus of Kosovo during the war, great but without noise. "Enough Is Enough" comes as a historical memory after two decades, and as such it may seem late, but it is precisely evidence of a world that is changing a little, an almost artifact of the great refugee crisis that the Balkans experienced and that seems to have had little impact on international political behavior, since the world constantly sees the emergence and expansion of acute areas of humanitarian crises. In this context, "Enough Is Enough" comes not only as the answer that the American President gave to Kosovo's independence status, but also as a questioning of the long-term relationship between power and human freedom.

 

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