But how can we accurately address such a sensitive topic? “No one has the! right answer on how to talk about the death of children at the hands of the police,” says Victorine Grataloup. “Each artist brings their own vision. We could say that it is ethically complicat to tackle this subject, but we believe that the symbolic field that is art is important for reclaiming reality.”
In the exhibition, there is no explicit mention of Zy, Bouna, Nahel, and all the others whose encounter with the police was fatal. “We are caught between those we often mention, those we don’t mention enough, and those we don’t know were victims, because the situation was too well disguis. Between the concern of not omitting anyone and the impossibility of mentioning everyone,” justifies the director. “But we must at all costs continue to talk about what happen, and what continues to happen.”
Rioters create emotion there is an undeniable emotional part
“Our desire, when the project was first creat, was to reflect on the riots and their legacy. What remains of them today?” Sonia asks. Riot, the word is assum. “The poetic driving force of my piece is found in the meaning of this word, literally “to create emotion”. This word has been appropriat by political discourses, which have singapore phone number library made it a weapon against the demonstrators,” she analyses. “I am in favour of giving it back its meaning. The rioters create emotion, there is an undeniable emotional part that makes them leave their homes after the murder of a child.”
This “emotional part” is subject to the experience of
visitors to the exhibition through recordings of his texts broadcast in headphones. Words sung, whisper or chant in cadence. “Put your hands in the air! Stop! Put your hands on the car! Lie the new audience group that was just creat down I tell you, I’m going to shoot!” shout two voices, in music with an ascending rhythm that borders germany cell number on saturation.
In one of the other recordings, children list the qualities that an “ideal police officer” would have. “One of them says that he would like him to be ‘less racist’ , can you imagine? There is a part of racism that is already perceiv as inevitable,” Sonia Chiambretto laments.
