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… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace

hat does it mean to live the good life? As ageless as it is protean, the question itself provided the starting point for Kunsthalle Wien’s expansive exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace,” named after the metrics used by Lebanese writer Bilal Khbeiz in (2003) to describe the unattainable dream of a “good life” for people in the Global South

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