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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
Some places
October 2009,
Golden adhesive and mixed media.
The installation inaugurates a series of works brought together under the generic title "Applications gilding". The white of Spain here disturbs the smooth and reflective surface of the gilding to leave room for a possible intervention by the visitor by erasing. The golden frame has expanded to become the surface of a work that emancipates itself from what remained of the very idea of the "tableau" and simplifies itself into a minimalism that marks the beginning of a methodical exploration of "gilding" material.
(Extract from the chronobiography of Hassan Darsi - florence renault, 2011)
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