YOUNES BABA-ALI

Installation
Variable dimension 

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Ready-made objects are de-contextualized and de-constructed, so that a hand-cart overloaded with old and deteriorated gas bottles as shown by Kamikaze becomes a metaphor for multiple meanings and/or reflections : from the questioning of a presumption of safeness which patently clashes with human negligence in handling dangerous wastes from everyday life; to an ironic look on the permanent paranoia of the Islamic terrorist threat affecting some western countries. A daily object turns into an alien one, thus evoking unexpected reflections, on the local as well as the global context.