Artist Patrick Altes revisits his colonial past

Patrick Altes was aged just four when he arrived in Paris with his family. They had been displaced from their home as the 1962 Algerian War of Independence expelled its population of European colonists.

Forty years later, Altes was awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust residency and used the year to develop work around the socio-political legacy of the Algerian War of Independence.

The resulting exhibition, ‘A Story of Revolutions’, is currently running at Triskel Christchurch, brought to Cork by UCC’s Department of French event series, ‘France and the Mediterranean’.