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Photography exhibition documents anonymous graffiti collective

13 August 2013

A new photography exhibition at the Museum of Moscow tells the story of MOW, an anonymous graffiti collective that formed in 2012. The exhibition, And You Want the Same, comprises a series of images featuring masked men painting trains with graffiti, abandoned construction sites and buildings in the outskirts of Moscow, Berlin and Hong Kong.

The collective, made up mainly of architecture and art school graduates, believe that, unlike high art, graffiti is more about the process than the result. The project is a collaboration between the Museum of Moscow, one of the oldest museums in the city, and art agency The July 16. The exhibition is part of the annual festival of street culture Faces and Laces and runs until 21 August.