ABSTRACT

For an artist, asking questions is to ask oneself about the factors influencing collective and individual behaviors. How is it possible, to explain the increasing loneliness, although we are always surrounded by people? How is it possible to explain fear, when “40 Cities” was born to reassure us (C40 Climate Leadership Group)? How is it possible to explain precarious urban conditions when the city concentrates all our means? How is it possible to explain anonymity and indifference when we are all interlinked and everything leads us to think that abundance is impoverishing us; that communication is stunning us; that concentration is isolating us; that the system of security is generating fear and therefore we no longer trust other people, our neighbors or our families? Facing the increasing pressure of people obliged to go in exile, can we the privileged, return to ourselves, behind the frontiers and boundaries? Sometimes boundaries are broken by the lack of hope, by

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people who have nothing to lose.