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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.
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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
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dry pastels,
ink and different techniques in sculpture : wire
and plaster, then wire and paper and finally bronze. |
(see
The
walking men) |