Adel Abdessemed accused of animal abuse, he doesn't stand for it and withdraws work from important exhibition in Lyon

French-Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed preferred to withdraw his video Printemps from the exhibition"Adel Abdessemed, L’Antidote" set up at MAC Lyon, Lyon’s contemporary art museum and opened on March 8.

The artist’s video work would be an allegory to all violence, especially to violence inflicted on animals.

The artist’s statement announcing his decision reads, “Despite the information communicated about the real conditions of the making of the video, social media and the press went wild on the basis of deficient information.”

Abdessemed, who is deeply committed to animal advocacy, has decided to withdraw the work and hopes that “art will once again become the object of exposure and that the infamy for animal violence will be applied not to the art that denounces it, but to those who actually practice it.”

The video in question would show many chickens hanging by their legs in flames in front of a wall. A young visitor outraged by this wrote a post on Twitter accompanied by an appeal to various associations against animal violence: it was viewed over 300 thousand times and shared by more than 20 thousand people.

MAC Lyon defended the artist by insisting on the harmlessness of the flammable gel: the video was made in Morocco using special effects for cinema thanks to a special team.

Source: Le Monde

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Adel Abdessemed accused of animal abuse, he doesn't stand for it and withdraws work from important exhibition in Lyon

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