Play Opposite or Ubu Roi Disseminated (2015)

Play Opposite or Ubu Roi Disseminated (2015) by Saâdane Afif translates French writer Alfred Jarry’s 1896 play Ubu Roi into an activist campaign. Excerpts from Ubu Roi, a major work of the theater of the absurd, which illustrates the ugly excesses of power and greed, will be printed on leaflets and distributed in public spaces over the course of the exhibition.