This is part of a conceptual project I did during my artist residency in Paris.
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The starting point for this series of works was the protests that erupted at the end of June due to police violence in France. During these protests, 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk was shot by a police officer during a check. The subsequent protests are reminiscent of the unrest during the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Nahel had Algerian-Moroccan roots, so he belonged to a group that, in connection to a long colonial history, experiences discrimination in France. Nahel‘s murder is believed to have had a racist motive on the part of the police.
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