Date: 2006-present [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]

Region: Europe [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]

Subject: Other [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]

Medium: Sculpture [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]


Artist: Encore Events


Confronting Bodies: French court, Judge Louis-Marie Raingeard


Dates of Action: Opened on February 12, 2009; was banned in April 2009.


Location: Paris exhibition


Description of Artwork: Chinese corpses

The Incident: A French judge on Tuesday slapped a ban on a Paris exhibition on the human anatomy that featured body parts from Chinese corpses, saying the display was indecent. Judge Louis-Marie Raingeard also ordered authorities to seize the body parts from the 17 Chinese men and women on display to allow for talks on providing them with a proper burial.

Results of Incident: Pascal Bernardin, manager of Encore Events, is appealing the ban.

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