NOMASMETAFORAS questions and criticizes the western approach to multiculturalism by addressing the unsaid of France’s colonial history and how these silences define the relationship to alterity in French and European societies. The silence around the Jardin d’Acclimatation, previously known to have hosted Human Zoos, during l’Expositition universelle, is a symbolic space that reveals the violence, the contradictions of France’s relationship to alterity.