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Abstract
Who are these laughing faces? Snapshots aligned in a grid on the wall, people chuckling, grinning, eyes twinkling with pleasure—not what you'd expect at an exhibition on war. The artist Sislej Xhafa is from Kosov@. During the lecture series, he said that these images of smiling Kosovars are aggressive: “You don't think it's aggressive to show so many people laughing after a war?”
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Brian Holmes
Brian Holmes is an art critic, translator, and political activist living in Paris. He holds a Ph. D in Romance Languages from UC Berkeley, and regularly publishes in Parachute magazine.