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The Centre for Prevention, Integration and Citizenship (CIPC) has been opened in September 2016. It is designated as the first French «deradicalization» centre. There is constant debate about its resources, organization and very existence. Access is restricted, its surroundings are heavily protected and it is inaccessible to journalists, not to mention artists. This video is the story of an effort to understand. How a narrative strategy is set in place. With the aim of providing some kind of representation of this physical, aesthetic and philosophical domain. In her essay «Confiscation», Marie-José Mondzain (french philosopher) suggests a re-appropriation of the divisive word «Deradlicaliser»(deradicalize). Once extracted from its reductive definition (reversing an extremist belief), it becomes the means to reveal fragility and obsolescence in the real. The video has been organised, set up and directed according to this conceptual premise.

Samuel Lecocq was born in Paris in 1992. He lives and works in Brussels.