This was one of the most interesting presentations of Paris Photo. Evangelia Kranioti at the Sator Gallery.
In 2015, Evangelia Kranioti did an artistic residency in Beirut. In the Sunlight / Unlight series on architecture and the female figure, she sees the capital as a Mediterranean sci-fi enclave whose vestiges could date from both the past and the future. A palimpsest of urban traces and a distant memory of war, between light and darkness, freedom and submission, inheritance and abandonment.
In continuity with this singular work, Kranioti had a personal project on the social contrasts of Beirut. Intrigued by the presence of women from Asia and Africa, the artist is interested in “kafala”, an extremely controversial adoption system that combines the conditions of modern slavery in today’s Lebanon. .
Foreign workers recruited through “kafala” are treated as goods, their employers having full authority over their visas and work permits. Such a procedure excludes them from the labor code but also makes them extremely vulnerable to exploitation and ill-treatment.
Galerie Sator
8 passage des Gravilliers
75003 Paris
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