Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, from June 25 to October 16, 2016.
A vast video installation, The Torn First Pages (2004-2008) draws, in three parts and on 19 channels, a singular portrait of civil resistance in Burma against the military junta in power. Its title, which means “the first pages torn off”, refers to the action of a bookseller, imprisoned for having torn, in the books and newspapers that he sold, the first pages, where the regime required to write ideological slogans.