BOOKS
T-[F]-EARS OF BEIRUT
دموع ومخاوف بيروت / دموع ومخاوف باريس
P-[L]-EURS DE PARIS
Self-published book. 100 numbered and signed copies in April 2024.
Collection of 200 photographs (analog and digital) taken between 2016 and 2024 between Paris and Beirut creating a bridge between the two cities.
Mirror cities, because everything that happens in Beirut is a preview of what will happen in Paris.
price: 20€
Their name, their age, their history, their dignity...? This is Paris / Beirut.
Everyone sees them and everyone ignores them.
They are the tears and fears of Paris / Beirut.
They are those who listen to time fly and hear the future to spoil.
Everyone sees them but no one looks at them.
They are everywhere and nowhere.
They are here but they are not.
They are all over the world.
The proud cry of the anonymous will soon cover the deafening cowardly silence
of the notables.
ERLANGER
JOURNAL D’UNE CRISE HUMANITAIRE / DIARY OF A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
OUVRAGE COLLECTIF / COLLECTIVE WORK
Collective work under the direction of Audrey M-G.
With: Nathalie Bardou, Benjamin Béraud, Marion Catusse, Yann Levy, Audrey M-G, Félix Seiler Fedi, Pauline Tournier et Tanguy Voisé.
Published by La Belle de Mai in collaboration with the associations Centre TARA, Les Midis du MIE, Timmy and Utopia 56 Paris. Launched on October 7th 2023.
price: 20€
Aged between 14 and 17 years, of sub-Saharan origin for the vast majority, young exiles had been wandering for months in the streets of Paris and in the nearby suburbs. It was impossible for them to set up a tent there for a night or more, brutally and systematically chased away dispersed by the police forces in this prefectural logic of 'zero fixing points'.
Already left to their own devices during their long journey of exile, street violence, harassment police officer, the confiscation of survival equipment distributed by associations, hunger and cold constituted their daily life. An unbearable daily life turned towards wandering and exclusion systematic as long as their minority has not been decided by the judges for childhood. Nor adults, neither minors, they are no one in the eyes of the administration and cannot claim any aid nor support from the State.
On April 4, 2023, the associations Les Midis du MIE, la Timmy, Utopia 56 and the Tara Center decide to invest in a disused school in the 16th arrondissement of Paris in order to group them into hoping for a quick and lasting shelter but also to put the State in front of its failure as for their protection and care.
What should have been seventy-two hours will last eighty-eight days, that is to say two months and twenty-seven days.