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 roof of the world
2010-2111
Video installation with 6 monitors and video players
The roof of the world is a set of improvisations and meetings, orchestrated by a process that originates beyond thought, and as both a project and a settlement. The roof of the world is an assembly: the sky, the city, the empty, the bodies ... bodies that capture emotions freely, space and lack of walls ... And beyond the walls full of old past slaughterhouses, beyond the issues and controversies generated by this unused space , act in and through a project that settles where no one wants to settle on a roof border just materialized by vertigo. The roof of the world is a juxtaposition of bodies that come in succession to experience, confront, and move in the lack of space that they make real ... And if it was this emptiness, this opening on the city, on the sky, which made these bodies mutually exist? This interweaving, this meeting just memorized by the eye of the camera, these performances without an audience in the open, are all the pieces of a puzzle until infinity, both complicity and phrases around the same shape . A look at a place, a neighborhood, a city, here or there, elsewhere ... where dancing on the roofs can be an act of resistance and existence.
(Florence renault)
