Burn Out, 2014
In France, between 2011 and 2013, one person set itself on fire every two weeks on the public square. From Jan Palach to the Thibetian monks, immolation by fire in another country appears, everywhere and at all times, as an ultimate act of protest. In France, the denial of these acts, treated as anecdotic news, condemns to be forgotten their protest scope which points to the disintegration of the French social project.
“How to report? There is no need to show the violence of an immolation to be sensitive to such an event, to receive the shock wave. On the contrary. The calm and the emptiness of these places feeds everyone’s imagination. The orchestration of denial figures the horror” – Samuel Bollendorff.
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