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  • NEW WORLDS – Les Naufragés

  • »In December 2014, I make my first entrance to Libya. I try to gain access to a detention center, which I manage to do in Zawiya, a male-only prison located 80 kilometers west of Tripoli. These are the first images I realize in Libya, and I only get one hour to take them. I am followed by a police officer who forbids some men to talk to me, and authorizes others arbitrarily. We are in the courtyard of the prison, surrounded by large walls. Some hundred people are there. The guards force the prisoners to squat for the «purpose» of the image.
    Stages, humiliations: media practices that seem to be commonplace in the compound. I oppose to it. I decide to start with gathering testimonials instead and not to make photographs first, as an attempt to get away from this forced staging. However, the detainees quickly confess to me that they have received instructions from the jailers to specifically tell me that they have tried to reach Italy by sea. In fact, these men state that they came to Libya hoping to find work or to flee areas of conflict. Now they are moved from prison to prison without reason, without knowing when and how they can get out. As they look straight into my camera, I record their faces, but they are men without papers, without an official identity.«
    Detention center for migrants, Zawiya, Libya

    The ›Human Writes Drawings‹ by choreographer and artist William Forsythe arise during performances – when large-format sheets of paper, mounted on sturdy metal tables, are written on by dancers, who to this end use their hands, feet, and mouths. The rough drawings, so suffused with energy, refer to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed in 1948. To this day, institutions and countries are often admonished to comply with it.
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Human Writes Drawing
Human Writes Drawing