Rwanda (see paintings)

Meanwhile the genocide in Rwanda was happening but one can't put so much energy into two such terrible events in the same time. In the very beautiful movie "NO MAN'S LAND" directed by the young Bosnian Danis Tanovic (prize for best screenplay in Cannes 2001) one of the protagonists opening a newspaper, says "It seems things are getting really bad in Rwanda". Exception of victims concerned by the problems of other victims in another country !
So, personally it's only after my work on Bosnia that I've been able to feel concerned about Rwanda, following (at my modest level) the example of Jean Hatzfeld, wonderful war reporter and writter : "L'air de la guerre" about his stay in Bosnia as war reporter ( ed. l'Olivier ) and "Dans le nu de la vie" (Le Seuil ) : his interviews of the victims of the genocide in Rwanda.

While I had collected hundreds of pictures in the media about Bosnia, mixing the characters in time and space, for Rwanda I only used one picture found in the newspaper "Liberation" which showed 6 or 7 people walking,but I used a lot of media :
dry pastels, ink and different techniques in sculpture : wire and plaster, then wire and paper and finally bronze.

(see The walking men)

 

 

 

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