Lumières

Lumières represents the activist,
feminist and politician Fadela Amara, president of the French Associative Movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises ("Neither Whores, Nor Submissive") that she created in 2003, here shown in company of Caroline Fourest, a journalist, documentary director, essayist and author among other essays of  Tirs croisés : la Laïcité à l’épreuve des intégrismes juif, chrétien et musulman (penned with Fiammetta Venner) and Le Génie de la Laïcité. The two activists  surround here philosopher
and encyclopedist François-Marie Arouet,
aka Voltaire, seated in the foreground.

Lumières stages a building once named "L’Humanité", that was imagined and erected by Oscar Niemeyer in order to shelter the eponymous French Communist Daily's headquarters in St-Denis, in the Paris Region.

Lumières pays tribute to the French philosopher's writings and manifestos (which so rightly denounced
intolerance and religious fanaticism in his time), and to the two French women’s positions and struggles for Gender Equality, their fight against racism and discrimination and in support of Secularism, their commitment against Communitarianism,
obscurantist Fundamentalism born from
all religions, and their engagement against
totalitarian Islamism.