THEY EXPERIMENT, RETREAT AND TRY AGAIN
(In 2023 and 2024)
In 2023...
- In March, one side of a poster challenges, the other reassures:
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| Pharmacy window at corner rues de Tolbiac / Château des Rentiers, 13th |
- In May, this image links Blacks with the French Revolution:
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| Bastille métro |
The colors are those of the French flag, red branches evoke flames and the street lamp recalls a song about hanging nobles from a lamp post ("Ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, les aristocrates à lanterne... les aristocrates on les pendra").
- In June, the Black is almost a sun-tanned white, yellow replaces red and details vanish:
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| Bus stop, rue Jeanne d'Arc, 13th |
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In spring 2024, Blacks might (gently) dominate:
Rue Patay, 13th Optician's shop (the meaning of the flying objects?)
Rue du Château des Rentiers, 13th Announcement of a school organization
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| Métro Nationale, 13th |
Ad for a television series.
# # #
Models are young, pleasant-looking, happy —
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| Châtelet métro, June |
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| Pharmacy window, rue Jeanne d'Arc, 13th, July |
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| Shopping center, 13th, November |
Their origin does not matter.
# # #
And suddenly, it does —
this ad next to the Barbès métro
opens entirely new ground...
(In June 2024, at the Barbès métro)
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...and a few months later
a Black takes over a domain
that has always been promoted by a (white) blond.
(The following September, throughout the city)
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