The Wall

Magazine SLEEK, Winter 2007/8, Issue 17

Theme : Hide /Seek

Pages 16

Benoit Pailley, Photographer & Set designer

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Marilou Daube, Assistant Stylist

The Stubborn protagonist is the wall - a border.

It is constructed everywhere like the Berlin of the past.

We thought it was destroyed, but in fact it has moved elsewhere.

It goes to places where hatred prevails.

USA/Mexico, Israel/Palestine, Morocco/Western Sahara.

The wall has wheels and history repeats itself.

The clothing on the wall belongs perhaps to those who have left their lives behind.

All that remains is a shadow trace of a murderous border drawn in fencing wire,''a chiken lattice''.