Around the world, an estimated 750 million people live as squatters. Whether it is occupying an abandoned building or pitching a tent on government land, there is a growing movement to live free from traditional ownership conventions and rethink our notions of home.
Artists and brothers, Tiago and Gabriel Primo, took the act of squatting to a whole other level. These urban squatters occupied the side of an art gallery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for several months as part of an art installation.
Hanging 33ft (10m) in the sky on a rock-climbing only accessible wall, the brothers added the comforts of home with sleeping hammocks, mirrors, dressers and even an old gramophone, they spent up to fourteen hours a day living on the urban wall. The performance art piece was designed to challenge people's ideas about conventional living space.
Via Dornob
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