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Paris Noir: Reflections From the Dark Side From the City of Light Friday, February 8 Alexis Peskine is a 27-year old artist. A graduate
from Howard University and Maryland Institute College of Art as
well as a Fulbright Scholar, he incorporates his experiences growing
up in multicultural and multiracial Paris in his video, photography
and mixed media art. From a Franco-Russian and Afro-Brazilian background
and having received a French-American education, Peskine occupies
a unique position to reflect on daily life in France. His multimedia
images on “The French Evolution: Race, Politics, and the 2005
Riots” have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African
Diaspora Arts in New York. For a review of his perspectives on France’s
motto “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité,”
his analysis of Belgian cartoon-character Tintin, and take on French
commercial images of the Senegalese soldier on the label of the
Banania chocolate drink and Asterix the Gaul, view the New York
Times Review at:
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