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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
exuviae
2011
black paint and gold dust on dibond.
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In 2010, the artist initiated a new use of gilding with a series of Tondo which, like an extension to the installation "Project in drift", offers large circular plates covered with black paint on which gold dust comes to draw the uncertain patterns of imagined cartography or snakeskin slipping like sloughs into dark matter.
(Excerpt from the chronobiography of Hassan Darsi - florence renault, 2011)
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