However Distant

Rap-video culture expresses the disparities between urban peripheries and dominant centres. It offers audio-visual records of the living conditions that regulate and reinforce the ambitions and fears of many who live in suburban areas. To shed light on the common experiences within the European rap scene, However Distant envisions the creation of a stage that puts together scenery captured from French and Italian rap videos. Despite their geographical distance, the videos recall the formation of a contiguous body of practices, focusing on self-affirmation and territorial de-stigmatisation. Drone and aerial shots depict rappers immersed in the architectural elements of their neighbourhoods – an act of defiance and resistance to marginalisation and disenfranchisement.