“I grew up in a place where it was normal to respect the other. Yes, we were Muslims, we bore Islam inside us, but this didn’t mean that we had to despise our Jewish neighbours, for instance, because we always had Jewish neighbours. At school we were friends, and I liked knowing what happened in the other houses, and they invited me to birthday parties, and I invited them. It was taken for granted that the others are different but it doesn’t matter, you treat them the same. We artists don’t look for power, we target humanity. Art is univer-sal. Each work can be a window that brings us closer, that shows us that the other is like me, that we humans have very similar problems, although our cultures are different. An other is another me.”