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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
Ghosts
"First of all, there is this black matter, industrial paint as thick as it is resistant, made from petroleum derivatives. There is this gold dust, both evanescent and omnipresent. Between the two, an alchemy takes place. .. Black gold and yellow gold interpenetrate without ever really mixing, playing off each other, repelling and attracting each other like magnets, in a duality of skilfully orchestrated chemical and organic contrasts and distilled by the artist."
(excerpt from the text by florence renault, april 2016)
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