La Nuit tombe sur l’Europe
In January 2016, in northern Greece, the borders closed, leaving 46,000 children, women and men traumatized by war and exile, stranded in Idomeni in the middle of winter. Left in the rain and cold, amidst garbage and excrement, facing the closed doors of Europe. There is no shortage of images that bear witness to these situations without provoking a change in the policies that bring shame to Europe. Public opinion, although disarmed, is certainly affected, but not enough for the leaders to take into account the impulses of solidarity that can be expressed. Worse, they condemn them.
The images of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea that we have been confronted with for the past few years unfortunately no longer change anything, as we have seen with the sudden, and ephemeral, awareness of the horror following the publication of the image of Aylan Kurdi, a child who died on September 2, 2015, lying on a beach in Turkey. Faced with the rise of populism, it is high time to become aware of the reality of brutality, of the unbearable trauma experienced by the thousands of women, men and children wandering the roads of exile.
It is our humanity that is at stake in the capacity of the European project to protect them.
DETAILS
Canopée des Halles, Paris, from April 15th to May 11th, 2017
Canopée des Halles, Paris, from April 15th to May 11th, 2017
Canopée des Halles, Paris, from April 15th to May 11th, 2017
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58 rue Saint Lazare, 75009 Paris
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