The artist Mohamed Lekleti has been asked by the Cimade de Béziers to sponsor their appeal for support for the refugees gathered on the island of Lesbos in Greece.
They come from Afghanistan, Syria, Congo, crammed into canoes, with many children on board. They are locked up in camps like Moria, without food, water, sanitation, or medical care.
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The artist whose work Passport is emblematic of the concerns of the association is built on a technical and symbolic duality. It takes up the pictorial codes typical of the artist, the black lines, and the figures duplicating each other.
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"The work confronts the drawing and digital printing of a press photograph from the news that illustrates the drama of migrants. Also, the Baoulé mask from the Ivory Coast called Passport that I integrated into the work provided information on the origin of its owner and served essentially as an identity card. The purpose of this work is to shed light on the ambivalence of the frontier which sometimes imprisons, sometimes enslaves, sometimes, on the contrary, ensures, guarantees freedom; it represents both a threat and a promise, it arouses fear and hope, it is a cause of confrontation, of hatred or an instrument of balance, of good understanding as well. Reflecting on frontiers means finding ways of using them that make them positive and fruitful. Borders imply a tension by which I mean a dynamic relationship of exchange between identity and otherness".
Mohamed Lekleti
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