Squatter Merel realized her ideal ‘mini-society’ in the old car wash, but Carwash Gallery is coming to an end

Squatter Merel realized her ideal mini society in the old car

Old caravans, cardboard signs with colorful graffiti paintings, a fence made of pallets and here and there a random object such as a worn mannequin without legs. To the ignorant observer, it is a mixed bag of – to put it disrespectfully – old rubbish, right next to the BP gas station on the Cartesiusweg. But for Merel, who lives there with a group of people, it is “a paradise”. The squatted paradise will not last long.

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