{"id":92476,"date":"2012-06-06T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T10:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:20:01","slug":"graffiti-artist-claims-censorship-at-tunis-arts-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92476","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti artist claims censorship at Tunis Arts Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tunisian graffiti artist Elektro Jaye<\/a>\u00a0was recently censored at the Tunis Pintemps des Arts (Spring of Arts), a modern contemporary art fair which\u00a0exhibited<\/a>\u00a0more than 500 art works this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the fair’s organisers Luca Luccattini literally told me that the state had put pressure on him to remove my posters\u201d, Elektro Jaye told Index.<\/p>\n

Lucattini, the fair\u2019s director, told Webdo.tn<\/a> that one piece by the artist has been taken down, but for administrative reasons rather than pressure from authorities.<\/p>\n

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The artwork<\/a> in question (on the far left) features the star and crescent from Tunisia’s flag, along with the Christian cross and the Star of David. \u00a0The images are combined with the phrase “La R\u00e9publique Isla\u00efque \u00a0de Tunisie”, which translates as “The Islaic Republic of Tunisia”. Islaic is a play on words, \u201cIs\u201d being taken from \u201cIslam\u201d and \u201claic\u201d from the French word for secularism, “la\u00efque”.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea suggested here is that the religious should not interfere with the state\u2019s decisions, nothing more! In my posters there is only a message of peace, and tolerance,\u201d says\u00a0Elektro Jaye.<\/p>\n

Tunisia has had a heated debate about secularism and Islamism, dominating political discussions in the months following the fall of Ben Ali. Many Tunisian artists did not hide their desire for a secular state, and have used their work to express their view that religion should be kept aside.<\/p>\n

While Elektro Jaye was unable to display his work at the art fair, he eventually succeeded in having his work displayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAicha Gorgi\u00a0suggested that I display my works in her gallery<\/a>. Some scandalmongers have been suggesting that this was just a marketing ploy. This is totally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tunisian graffiti artist Elektro Jaye\u00a0was recently censored at the Tunis Pintemps des Arts (Spring of Arts), a modern contemporary art fair which\u00a0exhibited\u00a0more than 500 art works this year. \u201cOne of the fair’s organisers Luca Luccattini literally told me that the state had put pressure on him to remove my posters\u201d, Elektro Jaye told Index. Lucattini, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4060],"tags":[4263,102,103,13500,2552,13501,7352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109402,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92476\/revisions\/109402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}