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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
Festival
2009
Transport vehicle, decorative elements, stickers and soundtrack ("Political color chart" audio directory)
(...) In the garden of the villa des arts, he is also presenting a follow-up to the “Off deslections” project with the work “Festival”. Born of a complicity of several years with the driver of "honda" assists La source du lion in its projects - Mohamed Mhaine - the work will become at the end of the exhibition a mobile work in the streets of Casablanca by taking up his life as a transport vehicle and at the same time replacing Mohamed's outdated honda.
(Excerpt from the chronobiography of Hassan Darsi - florence renault, 2011)
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