Mohamed Bourouissa – PériphériqueIn this breakthrough series of photographs, Deutsche Brse award winner Mohamed Bourouissa chose to appropriate the codes of history painting by staging scenes with his friends and acquaintances in the Paris banlieues where they used to hang out. Confrontations, gatherings, incidents, looks, and frozen gestures all suggest a palpable tension. Invoking Delacroix as much as Jeff Wall, Bourouissas high drama in the outskirts of Paris attempts to give a