After the complaint against X filed by the President of the Republic, the author of this performance responded to the investigators. He explains that he wanted “Just paint the anger of a Guadeloupean”.
The organizer of the exhibition having shown a work representing the cut head Emmanuel Macron held at arm’s length was heard Thursday by investigators in Guadeloupe after the complaint against X filed by the President of the Republic, he said . “I refused to answer the questions I was asked”reported to journalists Philippe Verdol, the president of the Association desire-Santé, when he left the police station in Pointe-à-Pitre where he was summoned.
Emmanuel Macron filed a complaint following the exhibition of a work representing a man holding his head beheaded by the head of state, brandished in the air. It was part of an exhibition entitled “Presentation at the Chlordecone” opened in January at the Arts Center, an abandoned building for years in Pointe-à-Pitre occupied by a collective of artists, the Kolèktif Awtis Rézistans.
The exhibition had been organized on the initiative of the Envie-Santé association. The complaint was filed for “Voluntary damage to the life or physical integrity of the person without this being followed by effect”said the lawyer for the artist and organizers, Me Patrice Tacita.
The table “Had no intention or message (…). I just painted the anger of a Guadeloupean ” said the author of the work, Blow, at a press conference on Wednesday. Convened on February 20 to the police station, he said “To be confident” As for the outcome of the case.