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
CATALOGS(selection)
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OR, Mucem, Marseille, 2017.
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A HISTORY: Art, architecture and design, from the 80s to today, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris. 2016.
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GLOBAL ACTIVISM, ZKM, Karlsruhe. 2014.
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EMPATHY OF THE PARTIES, ELECTIVE AFFINITAS, CRAC, Center regional d'art contemporain de Sète. 2009.
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BIENNALE 2, Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art. 2009.
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IN THE DESERT OF MODERNITY, KHW, House of World Cultures. Berlin. 2008.
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TRAVESIA, Modern Art Center of Las Palmas. 2008.
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RE REDING THE FUTURE, Prague Triennial of Contemporary Art. 2008.
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UNTITLED, Muhka, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp. 2007.
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RETHINKING THE MUSEUM IN MOROCCO: From the Edifice to the Nomadic and the Portable.
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THE EPHEMERAL OUTDOOR MUSEUM as Contact Zone: Taking Art to the Streets.
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PHANTOM SCENES IN GLOBAL SOCIETY, International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville. 2006.
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DAK'ART, International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Dakar. 2000 and 2006.
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REGARDS NOMADES, Franche-Comté Regional Contemporary Art Fund. 1999.
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FRAGMENTS OF IMAGINATION, French Institute of Casablanca, 1996.
BOOKS (selection)
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HASSAN DARSI: THE ACTION AND THE WORK IN PROJECT Abstrakt, Editions Le Fennec. 2011
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IMAGINED MUSEUMS: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco, by Katarzyna Pieprzak, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2010.
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NEW VISION ARAB CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE 21st CENTURY, Transglob publishing. 2009.
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GOLD APPLICATIONS, edition Galerie L'atelier 21. 2009.
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CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Artworld – Black dog publishing. 2009.
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FAMILY PORTRAITS, editions of La Source du lion. 2008.
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ARTISTS OF THE ARAB WORLD, Co-published by Galerie Navarra/ Center Georges Pompidou. 2008.
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THE LION IS DYING, editions of La Source du lion. 2008.
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LOOKS ON AZEMOUR, Edif editions. 2007.
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ECHO LARMITAJ, Le fennec edition, 2007.
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MOROCCO ON THE MOVE, Malika/Maisonneuve and Larose edition, 2000.
JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS (selection)
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NOSTALGIA AND THE NEW COSMOPOLITAN: Literary and Artistic Interventions in the City of Casablanca, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 33.1. Winter 2009.
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ART IN THE STREETS: Modern Art, Museum, Practice and the Urban Environment in Contemporary Morocco, MESA Bulletin 42.1-2. Summer-winter 2008.
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WOUND MAGAZINE, N°4.
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APRIOR, Ghent. 2006.
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GARDENS OF MOROCCO, November 2006.
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ARCHITECTURE DU MOROCCO, June 2001, March 2002, February 2003, June 2003, May 2004, December 2004.
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BLACK REVIEW, 1999