Our tears will not dry
\nTHEY murdered a flower but not
\nher fragrance nor
\nher colours<\/p>\n
SHE was in Ouagadougou on this Black Friday (January 15)
\nbeautiful deep eyes that could put to shame any Joconde
\nhair that would made all the Botticelli
\nVenus blush She was immensely beautiful immensely young As if the power of her photographer and video artist work had chosen to imprint itself on her own body<\/p>\n
In 2014, the Festival Les Instants Vid\u00e9o exhibited Crossings
\n\u201cCrossings is a three-screen video installation exploring the experience of sub-Saharan migrants who embark on a perilous journey to reach the elusive European shores. The installation combines voiceovers and static portraits with reconstructed video landscapes. It is an immersive experience into the collective memory of a forgotten minority.\u00a0\u00bb It was her participation to our cry \u00ab\u00a0For a free circulation of bodies and desires\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n
We were speaking about the bridges to build between Marseilles and the exhibition space (Station) she created with her friend in a former wood factory in Jisr El Wati area in Beyrouth. We met thanks to the go-between of cross-border and warm-hearted friendship Claudine Dussollier.<\/p>\n
THEY killed her because
\nTHEY hate life
\nTHEY hate what she is a Free woman, half French half Moroccan adopted by Lebanon,
\nToo sensitive and clever for them,
\nShe made visual songs in praise of migrants
\nSHE waited until Monday evening (January 18) to die
\nUltimate two-fingered gesture to human stupidity, a way to tell the killers You are not the ones who will decide the hour of my death! To these heart and brain illiterates, she taught a lesson on etymology: in agony, there is agon (from the greek ag\u00f4nia) which means a gathering, a meeting, a struggle, a fight.<\/p>\n
Our tears will not dry we will irrigate
\nOur struggles and our fights to come
\nWe will assemble cosmopolite flowers
\nWe will open up all the borders to gather differences
\nWe will make THEM hate our agony, blossoming and everlasting like flowers
\nAnd we are beautiful!
\nFor Leila Alaoui!<\/p>\n
Monday January 19th , 11.09 am
\nMarc Mercier
\nTranslation
\nNa\u00efk M’Sili<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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