Steeve Bauras, 3K Project (2013), detail, Jide Pinheiro 2019.
Born France (1982), lives and works in Paris, France
3K Project (2013) 2019
4 inkjet photographs, video 7.00 mins
Courtesy of the artist
The 3K Project aims to initiate a reflection on racism by anchoring discourse propagated by racist beliefs that functions formally, socially, and economically. The name of the project comes from the Ku Klux Klan, but the work is not only about the KKK, but also the hypnotic nature of extreme ideologies that fluctuate between eras and remain perpetually significant.
The video oscillates between a short scene from Samuel Fuller’s 1963 film Shock Corridor and images of urban skateboarders in Dakar and Havana. The skaters resemble a hunting ground of a discourse in which the skateboards are the vectors and the local population are the targets. The skating ramp amplifies the cyclical nature of these thought structures and cannot be activated by anyone except skaters. In a globalised world, the project is an extension of photography as a proposed image, submitted to critique, intended to give rise to exchange.
