Garbage artist of Zarzis | Mohsen Lihidheb | My Tunisia 🇹🇳

In his own words, Mohsen Lihidheb is "a nobody and everybody at the same time".
The former post office worker from Zarzis, Tunisia, used to lead an ordinary life, until he was inspired to do something more meaningful.
Having grown up by the sea, Mohsen has been collecting objects he found on the beaches of Zarzis for 23 years - items like bottles, buoys and dolphin bones. He puts them on display at this own small museum, or turns them into art installations.
With his artistic arrangements, Mohsen hopes to create awareness about the environment and the refugee crisis. "When I start an installation each piece has its own story," he says. "We can't clean the environment if we don't recognise the existence of waste and our role in producing it. We must manage it."
Guinness World Records recognised him for collecting 26,820 items in just six years.
Since the refugee crisis took hold in the Mediterranean, Mohsen has encountered a growing number of shoes washed up on the beach. Many of them are on display at his own museum, with some of them dangling from a shelf by their laces. He gives them a spin as he walks past them.
"Giving movement to the shoes is my way of giving a little bit of life back to the owners who died at sea," he says.
Still, not everybody understands Mohsen's fascination with the rubbish that washes up on the shores of Zarzis.
"Many people in Zarzis didn't accept my father's actions. They wondered about what he did," says Mohsen's son Youssef. "In Zarzis ... people only do something if they can benefit from it."
"I was happy to see him pursuing his hobby, but I was also worried about him. Because if you left him alone, he wouldn't stop," he adds.
Mohsen continues his work unabated. "I'm concentrating life and the universe in my small space," he says. "I'm trying to change the perception that each thing has only one identity ... And I try to provoke the viewer so he sees and feels things differently."
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[@lihidhebmohsen8498]

Thanks for this good job, all the family, friends....are happy with this hight artistic work. I think that this doc reached the most spirit of this ecologic action. It belongs to everybody, and everybody has to do something for nature, human ethic and life.

[@mohammadalilih3965]

Lihidheb Mohsen 3ami mohsen inta Vorbild mte3i ich bin stolz

[@coldarif]

BLUE and BEAUTIFUL . SubhanAllah

[@coldarif]

Ding ding , You are the RUMI OF TUNISIA

[@tunisianclimbers3024]

ya"tik alf sahha!! rabbi y3inek t bonne continuation

[@r.r7935]

Lihidheb Mohsen
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[@zahmoul03]

Mohsen's free spirit and yearn for assimilating with nature is inspiring. His efforts in this regard are deeply appreciated. Keep up the noble work.

[@theresagaignard1103]

Amazing soul. Inspirational.

[@adnanghos2185]

my heart Tunisia 🇹🇳🇹🇳❤
I'm form Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰❤

[@granda2126]

go visit!! there are a lot of Touristic places and natural locations extremely beautiful!! I'm telling you this because we don't see a lot of Pakistanis over there!! but met a lot of them in Europe and they were great people and polite, I had a lot of friendships with them!! having them in the country would be great!!

[@coldarif]

BLUE and BEAUTIFUL . SubhanAllah

[@Cactusbutt]

Wow that was a really interesting and thought provoking documentary.

[@DanielDemoustier]

What a great man! Thanks.

[@LukasAndalus]

I loved watching this! He's a very inspiring person.

[@yousahdood]

Wonderful man.

[@TheFranco49]

You Made me proud ya Akkary y awild bledi , Good luck and start teaching your Grand kids this way of live . Assalamoualikom

[@ledtargaouschi5831]

Wonderful !

[@chaouki585]

Bravo pour ce grand monsieur

[@marcozamali8350]

Bravooooo mohsen gamal wa majhoudet bi moustewa gaali wa hadhari respect respekt min almaniya el ghourba

[@3MH]

Bravos 3ami machalh

[@biketa6377]

Bravo Mohsen...

[@marcozamali8350]

Mohsen machallah glik ya lieth fi tunis minak kathier ihtirami wa tehiyati

[@HamidosAHBY]

bravo si mohsen

[@coldarif]

Ding ding , You are the RUMI OF TUNISIA

[@lihidhebmohsen8498]

Jalaluddin.....an honor.

[@alsultan5361]

حرام كدة بلادهم لية فقيرة كدة تونس من اغنى الدول فين المشاريع والتطورات

[@البذورالطيبة]

تعال زور جرجيس بلد هذا الرجل و بعد احكم هل هي فقيرة أو لا. يمكن انت شفت مشاهد معينة بس المدينة هذه من اجمل المدن اكتب جرجيس و شوف

[@silkroad7728]

💜💜💜🌍💌

[@naoufelzdiri8284]

mhalim