top of page
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
Zone of uncertainty
2014
16:9 HD video
10'39 minutes
​
A man paints. The frail cornice which shelters his footsteps is about twenty meters above the ground... Below the street, the traffic, the historic heart of Casablanca... He paints an abandoned and ruined building from the time of the protectorate, once flagship of the French economy in Morocco. A vain action which underlines the socio-economic paradoxes of Morocco... An exaggeratedly slowed down gesture, as if suspended in space and time, which questions the legitimacy of our actions at the same time as it creates a Zone of uncertainty in which reality could become fiction.
(FRD)
bottom of page