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Thierry Fournier, La Main invisible #2, 2020, after a photograph by Anne Paq, feminist demonstration in Paris, 2020
“The Invisible Hand (La Main invisible) transforms press photographs that bear witness to police violence, completely erasing the police officers from the image. Raising the question of censorship and pretending to submit to it, the image shows people under the assault of spectral entities that no longer have bodies or faces. These bodies are then assaulted by spectral entities that are like a metaphor for wider violence – the term “invisible hand” evoking that of capitalism in particular.
This series has involved close collaboration with the original photographers. It has been exhibited many times since 2020 and also illustrates the special issue Manières de voir #182 of French political magazine Le Monde Diplomatique in May 2022, Feu sur les libertés / Fire on Freedoms.”
