sented at the Sharjah Biennial. Since the central theme of this 10th edition of the festival is betrayal, I wanted to question through my installation the resonance and dissonance between a writer and his society. As such, the installation works on three levels: texts, sound and graffiti. The central piece is a parody of soccer jerseys wholesale a football match involving 23 headless mannequins. The T shirts worn by one team are printed with extracts of my writings novels, theatre, poetry, whereas the other team's shirts feature a hybrid of material taken from Algerian popular culture and other urban signifiers songs, jokes, popular poetry, recipes, soccer jerseys wholesale board games, etc . Of course, my texts particularly the graffiti are not terribly polite . In fact, they are shaped by the extent of social cheap team soccer jerseys and political violence that surrounds me. This is what my literature feeds off. It is perhaps a fault of mine to have naively believed that life is not polite. And that art is free to be impolite and impertinent. The controversial text is a monologue, The Soliloquy of Sherifa, from my play Les Borgnes [One Eyed People], which has been performed in many countries, cities, festivals in Paris, Marseille, Aix en Provence, Montreal, and in Algiers also. It is a part of my series Pi 232 ces d 233 tach 233 es Lectures sauvages Spare Parts Wild Readings . Some of the viewers and some of the organisers have criticised this text as obscene and blasphemous. Indeed, it may be that the words and the description can be interpreted as pornographic. The truth is that this sequence is a hallucinatory account of a young woman's rape by fanatic Jihadists, representing the radical Islamism experienced in my country during the Civil War in the 1990s. The

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