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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
Gold of Africa I
March 2008 - Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Intervention on the pier of the beach of Guia de Isora.
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The golden adhesive of Or d'Afrique tends to make the monumental concrete cubes of the dike disappear, at the same time as it underlines their existence and implies the tragic stories of crossings and shipwrecks. Gold (from Africa) then becomes both the beacon that signals danger and the coveted wealth that blinds.
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