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The story of the Kazakhstani artist's project withdrawn from the Biennale takes on a new meaning as she is accused of plagiarising the work of Chiharu Shiota, a contemporary Japanese artist based in Berlin, who has been creating similar installations sinc
It turns out that the Kazakhstani officials may not have been censoring a statement about repressions at all, but trying to avoid the charge of exhibiting plagiarism. Which, in fact, is just what the official side says: the artist, so we are told, was pointed to an improper borrowing and
