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2023
1983
France
Parliament
The artist Florian Fouché (b. 1983) first elaborated the “close actions” of Assisted Manifesto in 2015, after several years of working on a sculpture series partly inspired by the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest (The Antidote Museum, 2010-2014).
Assisted Manifesto was initially a response to a family tragedy; the first “close action” took place at the hospital that had received the artist’s father, Philippe, after a stroke which had made him hemiplegic. Philippe Fouché still uses a wheelchair today and lives “in an institution” (a nursin ...