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Fragments of Aleppo is an installation that works around a personal and collective relationship to an imaginary war in the Middle East. The installation wishes to question how my quest for identity occurs in a media context where the Arab world is adorned with a warlike imaginary. I deploy through cathode ray screens several emblematic videos of Iraq. These videos interact with cell phone screens that are filled with images of Aleppo. Two projections question a web navigation where these contents clash. In 2016, trying to escape the standardized representations of the conflict in Syria, my navigation leads me to 360 panoramas posted by users on Google, these are full of bugs, technological artifacts that reveal that these photographs are a fragile representation of a reality difficult to understand. The image and the war in perpetual progress, unstable reality whose Syria put online blurs the meaning rather than illuminate it. In these bodies cut out by algorithms, I find a certain poetry, that of pointing out the mutilation both technological and bloody of the situation. Thus the cathode ray screens on the ground, replaying a speech by Bush, the bombing of Baghdad, September 11 or Abu Ghraib, act as ruins on the foundations of an imaginary world. Syria, between drones, children calling for help and chemical weapons, acts as a catalyst, a moment where my memory is reorganized to look back on my relationship to war, my relationship to Arabic, my relationship to Islam as well. Outside of this space, photos taken in a darkroom from a 360 photograph construct a memorial place where the text presented here in introduction can be heard. At the back of the room, illuminating the space and projecting the shadows of the visitors, a slide projector scrolls the cropping of emblematic conflicts, a form of visual projection of my memory of violence.

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