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Mirage - Algerian Artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah

Bouabdellah explains the motivations that prompted her to develop Mirage: “In a few months, history has changed its side. It is now being written in the south, across the Mediterranean, where after Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, civil war in Libya and the rising of Syrian people, the spreading revolution has arrived to Bahrain and Yemen. And, while Morocco launches unprecedented political reforms, Algeria is committed to strengthening the democratic process. How will all this end up? No one can say with certainty”, says the artist. Her only certainty at the moment is that, as in every revolutionary process, images will perdure converted into icons. Bouabdellah found her own: “a picture of a Mirage aircraft of the Gaddafi’s Air Force”. Shot down in flight by rebel forces, the image showed the aircraft with its beak pointing towards the Libyan soil. “The hit didn’t come to be seen but it is significant and significative: the dictator is no longer invincibile”, concludes the artist. - ZB

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