Nadia Seboussi’s work takes up the question of armed conflict and what it gives rise to: violence, migration and exile. The works assembled for this publication focus on the representation of the Algerian tragedy by the recreation in video tableaux of these now-mythical depictions. Drawing on the iconography, full of pathos, transmitted by the world’s media outlets—with an emphasis on those of North Africa and the Middle East—and on a pictorial tradition depicting scenes of lamentation (also employed by Bill Viola), Seboussi creates sumptuous chiaroscuro frescos which propose a new choreography of grief. In the slow movement of the bodies, in the alternately consumed and ravaged faces, in the breaking down of the gestures that embody suffering, Seboussi proposes a moratorium for a period of mourning: Hidad.