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A Questionable Installation: Elias Avellaneda’s Spectacular Assemblage on Jefferson-Wyckoff

In a neighborhood with a hopping art scene, a truly transgressive public project stunned Bushwick residents last weekend.

A Questionable Installation: Elias Avellaneda’s Spectacular Assemblage on Jefferson-Wyckoff

A Questionable Installation: Elias Avellaneda’s Spectacular Assemblage on Jefferson-Wyckoff

In a neighborhood with a hopping art scene, a truly transgressive public project stunned Bushwick residents last weekend.

A Questionable Installation: Elias Avellaneda’s Spectacular Assemblage on Jefferson-Wyckoff
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Frank Multari

Frank Multari is a photographer and sometimes writer based in Brooklyn. See more of his work at frankmultari.com and follow him on instagram @multaro.

Elias Avellaneda

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“If you call this art you gotta be insane, papi. Because not for nothin’, between me and you, not to make a racist statement, but when it’s white people they call it art, when it’s minorities they call it garbage and vandalism. And that’s where it’s at. Honestly, whether it’s white, black, green, Jewish, Arab—that’s fucking garbage there. And it’s not gonna be there past Wednesday, you mark my words. Alexander Otero, quote me on that. Past Wednesday, all this shit is gone.”

Over Labor Day Weekend, a conglomeration of found objects accumulated at the corner of Wyckoff Avenue and Jefferson Street in what many assumed was an art installation. The area has…

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