Jeune homme érythréen jouant de la musique, bois Chico Mendes, zone Marcel Dorée, Calais, 8 février 2018, 2018

The artwork pledge

• NO POVERTY
• ZERO HUNGER
• GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
• QUALITY EDUCATION
• CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
• DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Alfredo Jaar
• Arts and Politics
• Calais Jungle
• Châtellerault
• Collective Memory
• Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
• Earth Summit
• Europe
• European migrant crisis
• France
• Geneva
• Geopolitics
• Migration
• Paris
• Photography
• Photojournalism
• Portrait
• Power Structure
• Social
• Switzerland
• Théodore Géricault
• The Raft of the Medusa
• Violence
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)

About this artwork

As the title indicates, this photograph shows a man playing an improvised instrument. The scene unfolds in the street but the punctum lies in the man’s fingers. As he fiddles with the chords we are brought back to reality and to think about this man’s living conditions.

In 2006, four years after the closure of the refugee camp at Sangatte, in France's Pas-de-Calais département, the French artist Bruno Serralongue visited what is known as the Calais Jungle for the first time. After this first encounter with refugees he began his ongoing documentary series on the life of migrants and refugees in this controversial territory of transit.

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