The idea of the ‘great replacement’ contested by French writer Renaud Camus is based on the conspiracy theory of the ‘Kalergi Plan’ (1926), according to which immigration from Africa and Asia to Europe was favoured for the purpose of ‘ethnic replacement’. The Great Replacement by Renaud Camus is a text that, despite the absence of an Italian translation, has shaped one of the masterpiece of Italian political rhetoric in recent years. The work, an A3-sized paper, depicts the cover of a possible Italian edition of the text, but with a gap: the author’s name. Applying the cover to any of the books by the namesake Albert Camus, the patron will fortuitously stumble upon the absurd.
Intervention in public space, Bologna, 2021