“The dead are not dead”, an exhibition by Malik Nejmi

"The dead are not dead" is the theme of an exhibition by Moroccan photographer Malik Nejmi, which is taking place in Rabat, indicates a statement from Kulte Gallery & Editions. It is a video around the issue of Senegalese migration which is inspired by the assassination of two street vendors in Florence (Italy), Mor Diop and Samb Modou, by a fascist extremist affiliated with the Casapound party in December 2011. This video, which clearly claims the idea of a sequence thought of as a social tableau, attempts to "step out of the field of contemporary art to propose a space for dialogue and culture animated by the desire to denounce the processes of exclusion of migrants in the city", underlines the statement. During his residency at the Villa Medici in Italy in 2013-2014, Nejmi was fascinated by the courage of the street vendors who travel through Europe and got closer to the Senegalese c…