The Invaders Ghita Skali
(2021)

None Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

Single-channel video, 10 min. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The invaders is a well known US tv show from the seventies where aliens are invading the world. In the nineties, the french humorists les Inconnus made a remake of this tv show where the invaders are migrants living in France. Transforming the aliens into migrants is a cynical gesture which is also showing the absurdity of the extreme right discourses. This video is a remake of this remake where the world went upside down and the attraction from the Global South to Europe got also reversed.

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