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
Half Moon
2005
Photographs digital prints
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The Half Moon project, which has been in the making for a few years, was born through a series of photographs of the site, as if suspended in un "no man's land". It has already been ten years since the premises of a potential seaside residence have been waiting on the road to Azemmour, each time he passes in front of this space, both abandoned and in the making, the artist stops there. to soak up the absurd poetics that emanates from it. This is what he will show in the derealized images that he will produce like so many improbable and yet very real architectural models. He will return later in 2009 to the place with a video, L'homme qui court, in which he stages himself in the enigmatic architecture of the place.
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(Excerpt from the Chronobiography of Hassan Darsi - florence renault, 2011)
