“What about hanging ourselves?” — Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

In March 2023, the art, design and architecture schools in France demonstrate against the lack of means, student precarity and for better working conditions.
On this occasion, I created this self-portrait of an articulated wooden mannequin, a lay figure – typical of the work of artists and architects – hanged in its cage...

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Photos during the protest marches have been taken by Alessia de Biase, Flore Bringand, Léo Delarue, Pierre de Nadai, Léa Destombes, Mathis Djellal, Jean-Marc Fiess, Andreas Fohr, Gérald Gribé, Didier Henry, Jason Karaïndros, Marilena Kourniati, Felipe Ribeiro Cunha, Anne Rochette, Joseph Roussiès, Merlin Soulas, Pierre Vastel, Élisabeth Veit, Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger and many others…