Artist Kader Attia, who won 2016’s Prize Marcel Duchamp, has quite a lot to say (and create) about the topic – and it’s a timely discussion, timely art. “What ultimately makes the question of reparation so compelling is not its recalcitrance, but its urgency. In Europe, and France in particular, long-strained differences of culture are now bound up in a complex web of alarming social crises — systemic poverty, racism, extremism, and terrible violence — which offer no hope of simplistic conclusion.”