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What amused me in this collage is to illustrate the Western fantasy of abused women, killed by a barbaric Oriental. I used a detail from Delacroix's famous painting "The Death of Sardanapalus" found in the Louvre in Paris to update it by a more contemporary victim.The presence of the photographer is softening the murder by placing it on a fictional level, what it was anyway, since it is a biblical story. I think the West has a very Manichean vision of the other, even if it’s true that the place of women is not the most enviable in patriarchal societies. But browsing through the various facts of Swiss and French newspapers, there are many murderous episodes and that almost daily . Except that Western society condemns these acts now, while in some countries governed by Sharia eg., it is not the case (see the recent trial forcing a young Afghan woman who was raped to marry her rapist!).
That's the setting. As to the form, I tried to marry (!) black and white and color, which could be interpreted as the colorless past played by the killer in connection with the colorful present (the victim), using a hand as a "connector". I also played on the perspective, by distortiopn, the trick is to keep everything on a likely plane. For me, this game creates an oscillation of the characters from the background, an effect that I ever wanted in my creations.