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
The running man 1 and 2
Series of filmed performances
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Dressed in red and green, in the colors of the Moroccan flag, the artist runs. He runs, for no apparent reason, without a real or at least clearly stated goal. He runs, in the no man's land of a future unfinished and abandoned real estate project, in the desert of the rue de l'enfer of a small town in Belgium... He runs, with no other intention than to underline by this action vain the spaces it crosses. He runs, carried in his effort by the energy he deploys to point out the aberrations of our living spaces, whether they are projection or reality. Of these filmed performances, there remain fixed images of these empty places, as if suspended in an uncertain expectation, that of an announced death or of a life still in proxy. And we no longer really know by looking at these images if it is the artist who travels through these spaces or if they are the ones who cross the elusive runner. (FRD)