“Wounds of War” (2015-2019)

“Wounds of War”
Pigment print on Dibond, 19th-century frame, 120 × 190 cm, 2019

Nice–Damascus.
A vicious circle, a brutal spiral.
This is the story of 2,748 kilometers. 2,748 kilometers of a proxy war. 2,748 kilometers of cries, tears, and mourning.

In Wounds of War, Mirial confronts us with a French woman, posing defiantly, nude, her body consumed by a ruined street in Damascus. A vast geographical and social divide. France, ranked among the world’s leading powers; Syria, at the bottom of the human freedom index.

And yet, the same outcome. The Syrian people weep under bombs, while in Nice, lives are shattered on a night of celebration. This allegorical figure bears, within her body, the physical scars of an ideological war, hostage to a conflict she does not understand.

This woman is us, she is them, collateral victims with intertwined destinies. Where zeal prevails, freedom recedes. Paris, Nice, and Brussels remember. The Syrian people too…

“Liberty, beloved liberty, where are you?”