Rima Abdul-Malak: “Art cannot be consensual, it can sometimes shock”

Dbehind his office, rue de Valois, a drawing catches the eye. The work, signed by the artist Olivia Paroldi, was offered to her by David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes. We see a little girl squatting there who is about to let a paper boat sail in front of her. The ripples that cross the sheet make his little feet disappear. Everything is blue. It becomes the sea. “It touched me immediately, confides, moved, the one who grew up in Beirut. That’s how I experienced my departure from Lebanon. A little girl, and a boat. I left this country at war without knowing where I was going. » On the fireplace, a more classic painting, by Édouard Dantan, was there before it: it represents the exact same room, but occupied by a man with a mustache in a gray and black suit, a certain Gus…