Exhibition presented as part of the season "Discordia, Daughter of the Night"
For his exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Massinissa Selmani has followed in the footsteps of Louise Michel in Algeria and New Caledonia, where this legendary gure of anarchism was deported from 1873 to 1880, after the defeat of the Paris Commune.
Taking his inspiration from this little-known historical event, Massinissa Selmani has produced an installation in which omnipresent drawings spill out from the page, to invest the space
in various forms. The artist thus raises questions about the current context, communication about revolts and our positioning “regarding the pain of others”, in the words of Susan Sontag.
