For several weeks, environmental activists have targeted several paintings, without damaging them, in museums including “The Sunflowers” by Vincent Van Gogh in London and “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer in the Netherlands.
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“These are actions that we endorse”, said Thursday, October 27 on franceinfo Clément Sénéchal, spokesperson for Greenpeace France, about the degradation of works of art by environmental activists. Again on Thursday, environmental activists targeted the painting The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer in The Hague. The work, protected under glass, was not damaged.
“It’s called civil disobedience. It’s a mode of action that has brought many advances to mankind throughout history”said the Greenpeace spokesperson.
“This mode of action has been an effective strategy against all oppressions, against slavery, against apartheid, against economic exploitation, against patriarchy and against the destruction of nature.”
Clément Sénéchal, spokesperson for Greenpeace Franceat franceinfo
“The subject is not so much where these actions take place as the level at which they place the alerthe also claimed. The best way to sound the alarm is to disturb our consciences, to upset our little peaces of mind.”. Clément Sénéchal ended by assuring that “without a radical leap, we are going to descend a suicidal slope” and that “if we do not change civilization, it will be the end of civilization”.