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 Lion Collection - The Lion Costume - The Lion Painting
IN "The lion is dying"
An art project by La source du lion (http://www.lasourcedulion.com/le-lion-se-meurt.html)
around the Aïn Sebâa zoo in Casablanca,
2003 - 2007
Lion painting
Performance by Hassan Darsi (Esplanade de l'Institut Français, Bd Zerktouni in Casablanca, April 6-20, 2005): "The Lion Painting" is sketched during the inauguration and extended in public each day until its presentation, the closing day
The lion collection
"The lion collection" has been made up of donations from people who volunteer to contribute to the project. These objects use the representation of the lion, through their packaging, their name, their visual identity, their subject, their motif, their title...: consumer products, personal objects, souvenirs, toys, stories, songs... The result is a collection more than a hundred objects whose content constitutes a sort of cabinet of curiosities.
Lion costume
On the different pre-cut parts of the costume, to the artist's measurements, the images of a selection of objects from "The lion's collection" have been printed by transfer. These elements assembled, the finalized costume becomes a new piece of the project "The lion is dying", a mobile mode of presentation for "The lion collection".
