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We carried out this installation from September 9 to 16, 2012 on the Digue du Large. A week in front of the sea, drunk with the wind and the sun, doing this ridiculous and magnificent gesture together. The work withstood a force 9 mistral, but not a few human hands. We have seen of our work only what we give you to see here. Barely completed, the installation was destroyed by a passer-by from La Digue and not a single gold leaf was found around it! We will never know what displeased him so much, or perhaps this passer-by got caught up in the work, seeing in it valuable material ? The investigation was vigorously carried out within the Port and will remain unanswered: who stole the gold from Africa ? that was the question asked, they simply told me at the security service secretariat… The two days that followed, we again covered a few blocks with what was left of the adhesive, to finally see from the sea, during a boat trip, the bursts of light from Golden Africa…
Adrift project
Slates
Slates series
2020 - 2021
Dibon and white soft pastel
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The Slates reproduce in soft white pastel drawing on blackboards the "motif" of the scaffolding used for a series of monumental works (Africa under construction,Marhaban). The blackboard, like a reminiscence of the artist's school memories, but also like a more frontal reference to the transmission of knowledge that “scaffolds” our future. The blackboard as if nothing could be inscribed on it except the evanescent whiteness of a chalk so easily erasable, like a blank surface in opposition to the white page, a surface where desires and possibilities come to be scaffolded .
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(florence renault, august 2021)
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