MIO
OKIDO

Stranger

 

2015

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In Paris, where security has increased after the terrorist attacks, the artist interacted with Parisians as a cute stranger holding a flower instead of a gun.

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Something unorthodox can be accepted as an object of curiosity or marginalised as an object of disgust. At the time the artist gave this performance, the city of Paris was still tense and many security guards were on the lookout, as an expression of anxiety about an invisible but present enemy inside of society.